Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Times tektite of the month
Hello fellow tektite addicts Paul and Norm, Paul noted I invite you to please share your views and images of specimens that you have either supporting or opposing so that we can all better understand these amazing objects. I have a few of these somewhere and have many others I strangely left in dealer boxes. There are a couple variations in these from what I have noticed. Some have nice rims...where others are kind of sunk in with no rim. Also, and almost more puzzling, I have seen more that are oval rather then round. I would think...without anything to back me back...that the more round versions with nice rims are bubbles coming out. It just seems to me that would happen. Oval ones that are sunk in are a little more confusing as I can't seem to image injection or bubbling out forming such features. I am of course ignoring other forces at work during or after tektite formation...such as motion or weathering. Clear Skies, Mark Bostick www.meteoritearticles.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Times tektite of the month
Hi Mark! Sounds like a good Collector's Corner article (hint hint). I have an excellent example (I think) of a bubble coming out. I think I'll use it for May's Tektite of the Month. Thanks for your input!! Paul At 08:47 AM 4/10/2006, MARK BOSTICK wrote: Hello fellow tektite addicts Paul and Norm, Paul noted I invite you to please share your views and images of specimens that you have either supporting or opposing so that we can all better understand these amazing objects. I have a few of these somewhere and have many others I strangely left in dealer boxes. There are a couple variations in these from what I have noticed. Some have nice rims...where others are kind of sunk in with no rim. Also, and almost more puzzling, I have seen more that are oval rather then round. I would think...without anything to back me back...that the more round versions with nice rims are bubbles coming out. It just seems to me that would happen. Oval ones that are sunk in are a little more confusing as I can't seem to image injection or bubbling out forming such features. I am of course ignoring other forces at work during or after tektite formation...such as motion or weathering. Clear Skies, Mark Bostick www.meteoritearticles.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Times tektite of the month
Norm, Did you miss this statement from the first article? I invite you to please share your views and images of specimens that you have either supporting or opposing so that we can all better understand these amazing objects. And no I did not repeat it in the second article and yes I should have. Gee maybe I was in a hurry trying to get another issue of MeteoriteTimes up for people to enjoy. Please spank my hand a little harder. If this is how you share and help us understand I really don't want your help. Why don't you do something positive and write next months Tektite of the Month with specimens you have and why you don't think they could be. That's how we all learn. I certainly won't be writing anything next month to stimulate thinking... why bother Paul At 07:40 PM 4/8/2006, you wrote: Paul, I tried to send this off list, but the email link doesn't work. With all due respect, you are selling an idea as fact. Ideas are fun and should be unconstrained. But don't present them as done deals. I have dozens of specimens of this sort. They are so uniform that they cannot be the random melding of two tektites. I don't claim to know what they are for sure (and I don't even deny that you could be right, but I don't think so). I have one that is developed on a bubble shard and the convex exterior feature corresponds with a concave interior feature, suggesting it was a bubble about to erupt. This is quite fatal to your interpretation. Tektites are particularly fun because there are still questions like this that even us kids have a shot at solving. But don't foist a simple idea, as fine as it may be, on the believing public as fact. It is a fine idea. And almost surely wrong. Sorry. But if you want to buy a whole bunch of these, let me know! Norm http://tektitesource.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Times tektite of the month
Hi Phil and Norm, Nice to talk to you again Phil, It's been a while! I did not have anyone ask any questions nor offer any possible solutions to the questions I posted in the March 2003 edition so I thought I'd post the article again and throw out a different specimen... Norm, this is the type of specimen I'm interested. It is a regular solid patty, not hollow (~ 2.4 g/cc) http://www.meteorite.com/links/2003/March/tc4.jpg http://www.meteorite.com/links/2003/March/tc3.jpg Norm, please let me know how many you have and the price. (off list please) Thank you, Paul At 10:20 AM 4/9/2006, you wrote: Hi Norm and Paul, It is an interesting concept and I've wondered how to tell a true impact/weld from a bubble feature (collapsed or burst), especially when the feature is totally recessed. Norm, do you agree with the assessment of the piece in the original March 2003 edition as an impact/weld? Feel free to respond back to the entire list at any point. Regards, Phil - Original Message - From: Norm Lehrman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 8:40 PM Subject: [meteorite-list] Meteorite Times tektite of the month Paul, I tried to send this off list, but the email link doesn't work. With all due respect, you are selling an idea as fact. Ideas are fun and should be unconstrained. But don't present them as done deals. I have dozens of specimens of this sort. They are so uniform that they cannot be the random melding of two tektites. I don't claim to know what they are for sure (and I don't even deny that you could be right, but I don't think so). I have one that is developed on a bubble shard and the convex exterior feature corresponds with a concave interior feature, suggesting it was a bubble about to erupt. This is quite fatal to your interpretation. Tektites are particularly fun because there are still questions like this that even us kids have a shot at solving. But don't foist a simple idea, as fine as it may be, on the believing public as fact. It is a fine idea. And almost surely wrong. Sorry. But if you want to buy a whole bunch of these, let me know! Norm http://tektitesource.com __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
