[meteorite-list] Largest Crater in the Sahara Desert and LDG

[tracy latimer]

Perhaps, rather than falling like a dead rat into the division between 
tektites and impactites, LDG is an indicator of more of a continuous 
spectrum.  We already admit that there are anomalies where Muong Nong 
tektites and some aspects of australites don't fit comfortably within 
tektite parameters.  The meteorite community acknowledges that almost every 
meteorite classification has its odd ducks that show characteristics more 
appropriate to other groups, or fit no existing group (that's how we get new 
classifications!)  Could there conceivably be in between stages, where the 
irregularities of things like LDG actually indicate a median?

Neither fish nor fowl,
Tracy Latimer



> > Hola Norm, so it seems we actually agree on most of
> > the points, including the
> > most important one: the subjectivity of the
> > definition.