[meteorite-list] Meteorite Times tektite of the month

[Paul Harris]

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
>
>