Steve,
I am a tektite collector and I agree with you about the so called etching.
If you look at broken fragments of hollow tektites the inside surface is
smooth and the outside textured. You can also see this on stretched
specimens, the stretched area is smooth. This so called etching is bogus.
Dan Wray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dunklee" <steve.dunk...@yahoo.com>
To: <Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:41 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Steves unproven tektite theory by Steve lol!
I believe the features on most tektites are produced during formation and
not by etching. As the molten material reaches the upper atmosphere they
reach a verry cold environment with low atmospheric pressure. The skin of
the material is outgassing while being exposed to sub zero temps. this
outgassing while freezing causes the skin to crystalize in strange shapes.
then they are smoothed off during re entry which reaches speeds over the
speed of sound. when wet limestone mud freezes in winter it causes similar
crystal formations. when you mash them down they look like the surface of
tektites. the molten material travels up to 4 or 5 miles in a molten state
where it is quenched by sub zero tempratures causing crystalization. then
re heated during its fall back to earth. the deep sharp grooves made
during cooling are rounded off during re melting. I have a teardrop with
smooth glassy surface on one end with no etching. if the etching was
terestrial the
whole tektite would be etched.
Cheers
Steve Dunklee
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