What is a tektite? Is a tektite a meteorite?
All tektite glass fell as meteorites. Tektites are a very durable and high quality natural glass. They come in several forms: splash forms, ablated splash forms, micro-tektites, layered (can be quite large; tens of kilos each, and all have extra terrestrial volcanic structures that can take tens of minutes to form), and a twisted little impactite-like form that results when a large block of layered tektite glass impacts the earth and forms a crater (like Zhamanshin, Aouelloul, and Darwin craters). The heat of the impact re-melts portions of the layered tektite glass and forms the whispy little twisted impactite-like forms. The works of NASA scientists Dean Chapman, John A. O’Keefe and others proves they are from the moon (Chapman’s work on ablation) and are volcanic (O’Keefe, Emil; Izokh, Futrell, etc.
