Australite Tektite, 1.59g, South-Western Australia Shangaan Amethyst Collectors Specimen The blast—roughly equivalent to 20

The blast—roughly equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT—melted the desert surface and left a glass-lined crater about 10 ft deep and nearly 1

Gorgeous Crystallized Pink Rose Quartz fine mineral specimen

his meteorite hunting crew goes on expeditions into the Australian Outback to search for these

This Quartz specimen was collected above 15

Namibia introduced a new National Heritage act

Australite Tektite, 1.59g, South-Western Australia Shangaan Amethyst Collectors Specimen The blast—roughly equivalent to 20Australites are tektites, a natural glass formed during a meteorite impact. Australites formed about 700,000 800,000 years ago when a massive meteorite impacted Earth. The impact glass was blasted high into the upper atmosphere, where it cooled and began its descent back to Earth. As the tektites re entered our atmosphere, traveling at high velocity, aero dynamic ablation occurred, causing the outer surface of the tektite to melt away, leaving the