[BR-Crater] meteorite hunting

Scot Wilcoxon scot at wilcoxon.org
Fri Aug 10 10:38:49 PDT 2007


I remember reading about that event.  One of the things which happened was
the tektite surface cooled enough that reentry created new melt patterns,
particularly if the object stabilized in the airflow.

> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 04:53 +0000, save children wrote:
>> I have a tektite from Thailand strewn field and I was given this in
>> trade
>> for my donation of Kentland shatter cones to the San Jose State Museum.
>> Interesting as they show two melt events, one leaving the atmosphere and
>> another on reentry.
> Is it possible that the re-entry melt is from simple impact pressure?
> Or landed on top of a partially solidified melt pool?  I'm not familiar
> with that particular crater.





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