[meteorite-list] RE...Metal Tektite's....

From: tracy latimer <daistiho_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Apr 23 23:24:07 2006
Message-ID: <BAY115-F26806C7226B87D26CFB546CAB90_at_phx.gbl>

Well, if you want to get picky, technically you can get that type of
material from an iron meteorite, although I'm not sure I'd call it a
tektite. Canyon Diablo is well known for having partly vaporized on impact;
the resultant iron vapor recondensed and seeded the desert for kilometers
around with metallic droplets that cooled into tiny spheres. I don't think
there was any mixture of gas and solid, though. Either the fragment
remained metal all the way down, or it vaporized on impact.

Tracy Latimer


>From: "kevin decker" <innocentwolf15_at_hotmail.com>
>To: Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
>Subject: [meteorite-list] RE...Metal Tektite's....
>Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 07:57:12 -0400
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> Hello,Thank's for your replies to my query on Metal Tektite's!..What if
>the Impactor were "metallic",and in the vaporization and remixing
>process,not all of the "metallic" bolide completely vaporized?..it then
>recondensed,remixed,and got ejected as an "metallic"
>object?...Thank's!..Kevin W.Decker.
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