[meteorite-list] What is it??

[Graham Christensen]

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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Graham Christensen
voltage at telus.net
http://www.geocities.com/aerolitehunter
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MARK BOSTICK" <thebigcollector at msn.com>
To: <jonee at epix.net>; <jan at meteorieten.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
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.
>
> Clear Skies,
> Mark Bostick
> www.meteoritearticles.com
>
>
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