[meteorite-list] Possible Tektite

From: Peter Davidson <P.Davidson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:44:55 +0000
Message-ID: <576F2B74A34E584AA173B40D1A8914C336B9ED7B_at_NMSMAIL01.nms2k.int>

Phil

They look very like some glass slag that was brought into me for identification. A lot of industrial waste like this was used as hard-core during the railway building years of the 19th Century and can therefore turn up anywhere in the country where a railway line or a road was built. This piece certainly did not have any connection with local glassmaking.

Cheers

Peter Davidson
Curator of Minerals

National Museums Collection Centre
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p.davidson at nms.ac.uk


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Subject: [meteorite-list] Possible Tektite

Someone brought this into the museum for an ID. It looks sort of like a tektite. It doesn't really look like any slag glass that I've seen. No find location was given. Any tektite experts have an opinion?

http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27008_zps03ffc3d1.jpg
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27007_zps7cb05a26.jpg
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27006_zps750db031.jpg
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27005_zps5cded8cd.jpg
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27004_zps07aa10ea.jpg
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27002_zps10c0ab1c.jpg
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x177/cyphor79/June2011/2013-10-27001_zpsa797a7da.jpg


Phil Whitmer
Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum

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