[meteorite-list] An alternative origin of tektites

[Graham Christensen]

I read an article in the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada journal that 
said that the Earth once had a ring of tektites or a system of rings around 
it and when the supercontinent pangea formed, the earth's gravitational 
field became lop-sided and the tektite material in the ring ended up in an 
orbital resonance with pangea and the tektites formed a clump or "ring arc" 
that was directly over pangea at perigee. When pangea broke up, the 
resonance dissapeared and the ring arc's orbit began to decay The shape and 
distribution of the australasian tektite strewnfield and the ablasion 
characteristics of the tektites is consistent with a ring arc's orbit 
decaying and eventually bringing the material crashing to earth at a low 
angle.

Furthermore, the tektites associated with the chesapeake bay crater may 
infact have been dragged down by the impactor's gravitational field as it 
passed through or near the rings and this may be the case with other tektite 
fields as well.

I have the article here on paper but I can't find it on the internet. I'm 
not sure if this has been posted before but if anyone's interested I could 
type up the text and E-mail it to the list.

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Graham Christensen
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