[meteorite-list] Meteorite-list Digest, Vol 84, Issue 62

[Chauncey Walden]

  On 8/30/2010 10:00 AM, meteorite-list-request at meteoritecentral.com wrote:
> "Dr. Boslough has also shown that an LAA from a ~100 meter diameter NEO
> melted sand into glass across a region about 10 km in diameter during Libyan
> Desert Glass impact ~35 million years ago.
> During this event the LAA's fireball settled onto parts of Egypt and Libya
> for about a minute with temperatures approaching 5,000 K.
> Its hypersonic blast wave extended radially for about 100 kilometers."

So, does this mean we need a new term for LDG type material? It's not 
technically a tektite since it formed in place or even an impactite 
because there was no impact per se. Meltite? Fireballite?
Chauncey
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