[meteorite-list] Tektite Surface Question- Please Zap if I'mout of place

[MARK BOSTICK]

Hello all,

Norm wrote:

"Also, particularly with the "onion" type of splatted tear, there is usually 
a marked contrast between an unpitted, stretched upper surface and a deeply 
pitted base.  The latter resembles the texture of molten metal poured onto a 
very wet surface, where the resulting steam pockets pit the base.  I've 
often wondered if this is a clue that tektites fell during a very widespread 
rainy (monsoon) season when most of southeast Asia was wet.  This might also 
help to explain why we never see anything embedded in the impact surface of 
a plastic tektite."

I collect the onion tektites and have always found those of interest also 
Norm. (I think I even got a few of mine from you a few years ago.)

Another interesting version of the onion tektite, are ones with completely 
flat, planar flat, bottom. As if they landed like a Hersey Kiss, still 
partly soft, and then solidified. Mind you, the physics on such seems 
impossible.  (If these tektites fell from the upper atmosphere.)

Mark