Re: [meteorite-list] What is it??

Graham Christensen Sun, 10 Apr 2005 22:18:13 -0700

I'm pretty sure I have some of this meteor crater glass. A friend of mine visited the crater a couple years ago and he found a brown bubbly rock with small white chunks in it that weakly sticks to a magnet. Mark Bostick sent me a piece of monturaqui impactite to compare and they do seem quite similar except that the meteor crater specimen has smaller bubbles and isn't as shiny.

There's a picture of it here:
http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter/impact.html (top left picture)

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----- Original Message ----- From: "MARK BOSTICK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 11:06 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] What is it??

Elton noted: "Actually folks..there IS a glass impactite found at Meteor Crater. I have read the research long ago but not sure Iremember what it looks like. I even think HHN wrote about it."

You are correct Elton, but the impactite looks like Monturique impactite....which is also glass. when you melt just about any two or more rocks together you get glass. Not window glass, but glass.

Michael is correct on it being burned trash. This was a bunch of it on the side of the storage hill a couple of years ago.
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Mark Bostick
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