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

[tracy latimer]

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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