AUSTRALITE (estimated from 710,000 years old impact) - Nice round shaped Tektite

Description

AUSTRALITE
Astralite
Tektite
Meteorite impact formed glass
Specimen is 1.06g, as found...
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Tektite (from Greek τηκτός tēktós, "molten") are gravel-sized bodies composed of black, green, brown, or gray natural glass formed from terrestrial debris ejected during meteorite impacts.
Australites are a specific tektites found in Southern Australia, below 25 degrees latitude. They
are considered to be about 710,000 years old on the average
and
are mostly dark or black, with shapes including discs and bowls that are
not seen in other tektites
.
Indigenous Australians termed australites ooga ("staring eyes"), and they were used as sacred objects or as cutting tools.
Europeans found out about australites in 1857, when
explorer Thomas Mitchell gave naturalist Charles Darwin a mysteriously shaped piece of natural black glass
. Darwin mistakenly thought that australites were of volcanic origin, but one of the first scientists to seriously study australites was Charles Fenner, who saw his first australite in 1907, and was the first to establish the possible link with meteorites.
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