Moldavite, the melted silica of the Earth, is the naturally water-etched result of a meteoritic impact ~14.7 million years ago. At ~77% silica it is soft enough to allow the deep, groundwater etching Moldavite is famous for. www.studiomineralia.com

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6-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Strike Created a Massive Field of Natural Glass in Brazil The crater left behind from the impact has yet to be found.

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New Discovery of Tektite Field in Brazil Linked to Ancient Asteroid Impact For the first time ever, scientists have identified a vast field of tektites in Brazil, the glassy material formed when an extraterrestrial object strikes Earth with extreme force. The fragments, named 'geraisites' after Minas Gerais where they were discovered, extend over 900 kilometers. These dark, aerodynamic droplets are remnants of a massive asteroid impact that occurred approximately 6.3 million years ago. The discovery fills a gap in South America's impact history, as tektite fields were previously only known in other regions such as Australasia and Central Europe. Laboratory analyses confirmed that these glass fragments are tektites, made from molten rock that rapidly cooled after entering the atmosphere. The field’s vast size indicates the impact was significant, although researchers have yet to identify the crater linked to the event. This discovery also highlights the rarity of tektite fields and contributes to understanding ancient asteroid impacts, with further studies expected to provide more details about the size and energy of the impact. Researchers also aim to refine models of the impact's speed, trajectory, and energy to better understand the historical event and its global effects.

New Discovery of Tektite Field in Brazil Linked to Ancient Asteroid Impact

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✨Brazil just revealed a new field of “gerasites”—natural glass born from ancient cosmic impacts! ☄️ A lost chapter of South America’s fiery past… #Tektites

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New Tektite Field Shows 11‑Million‑Year Asteroid Impact in Australia

Scientists identified a tektite field in a remote part of South Australia, indicating an 11‑million‑year‑old asteroid impact; the research was led by Curtin University. Read more: getnews.me/new-tektite-field-shows-... #tektites #southaustralia

Ancient Australian Glass Reveals 11‑Million‑Year Asteroid Impact

Six glass pieces named ananguites from southern Australia are dated ~11 million years old, indicating an ancient asteroid impact whose crater is still missing. getnews.me/ancient-australian-glass... #tektites #asteroidimpact #australia

Ancient 11‑million‑year‑old Cosmic Glass Discovered in Australia

Scientists identified glass shards spanning about 560 miles across South Australia that date to roughly 11 million years ago, marking a previously unknown Miocene impact. Read more: getnews.me/ancient-11-million-year-... #tektites #impact #australia

New Australian tektite group 'ananguites' dated 11 million years old

Scientists have identified a new Australian tektite strewn field called ananguites, dated to 10.76 ± 0.05 million years ago and extending about 900 km across the continent. getnews.me/new-australian-tektite-g... #tektites #geology #australia

He lifted his arms, and from all over the Earth, tektites of all sizes and shapes turned blue, pulsed, and began flowing towards the great dome. Like a sparkling fire on the hori-zon, they came closer and closer, whirling in a great spiral mass towards their mother craft for the next stage of that eternal voyage on which they had embarked so many millions of centuries before. Tek stood before them, sparkling in myriads of colours, growing incandescent and brilliant in rainbow hues that shone through him as he became larger and larger, a great pillar of unearthly fire.

#UAPsky #tektites

"Same way as we got in," Tek announced. You'll have to travel in comfort. Hop inside," he said. He tossed the tektite onto the ground. It swelled to enormous size and a door opened into it. "Come in. It's O.K. I've lived in here for years." They entered hesitantly. Inside was a huge hemispherical room with translucent blue-black walls that sparkled with lights. There was a large control panel in the centre, and a strange glowing mass, only vaguely humanoid in shape. "Tek?" Steven asked.

#UAPsky #tektites

"What if there really were Aliens?" Frankie asked. "They wouldn't have to look like us. They might be crystalline - like this," he said, pointing to the Tektite. "Or just energy fields. You might not even recognise one when you saw it." "Well, in that case, if something looked like an Alien, I'd blast it with a laser - like Ripley." "It might not be unfriendly. It might be real friendly and need help," Frankie said. "Aw. Get off it, Frankie. It's boring, bor- ing, boring."

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Just like that you’d likely be under the watchful eye of the DOE (understandably so). The Atomic Energy Act + anything regarding induced radioactivity would= federal control, possibly including eminent domain authorities which they do have under the act #UAPsky #tektites

Now imagine taking such materials & testing in a lab environment: neutron bombardment, deuteron beam, high-energy gamma rays, microwaves, EM & neutron flux, or toss them in a particle accelerator. Otherwise stable elements like Al, Na, or Si can technically go radioactive #UAPsky #tektites

Wouldn’t a meteorite/tektite technically qualify as “crash material”? 🤔 If so, what are those materials Tim Taylor has been toting around? Hee hee #UAPsky #tektites

I’m very curious if the materials Tim Taylor carries with him are something like tektites. Would make a lot of sense since Hal Povenmire not only studied tektites and was friends with the Bledsoe’s, but also recommended John A. O’Keefe books on tektites for them to read #UAPsky #tektites

The nicest selection of large, Museum-perfect, Besednice #Moldavite we have ever seen. Look at that canyon deep etching! Moldavite is the silica melt the result of a meteor impact in what is now southern Germany 14.7 my ago that naturally etched. 🧪 #minerals #earthscience #crystals #tektites

And so we study what the heat refined,
These orphaned sparks from some collapsed ideal,
Not for the faith they carried in their glass,
But for the crater they forgot to feel.

#tektites #ideal #idealism #impact #rupture #poem #poetry #divine #debris

They’re useless, yes. No wisdom, no device.
But we can draw a line between their fall
And triangulate the place where silence cracked,
Where ache became its own cathedral wall.

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They gleam, a little, when the angle’s right.
Not much. Not often. Just enough to guess
A violence once lit up the atmosphere
And left these trinkets stranded in the mess.

#tektites #ideal #idealism #impact #rupture #poem #poetry #divine #debris

We found them not in temples, not in songs,
But scattered through the ash of common days,
Small glassy bulbs, burnt smooth by passage wronged
Through air too thin for meaning, thick with praise.

#tektites #ideal #idealism #impact #rupture #poem #poetry #divine #debris #auden

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Fun fact: when I was gifted a piece of moldavite, I knew I wasn't ready for it so I put it in a bowl full of little obsidian pieces and called it "obsidian jail" and would do this every time I passed by it #witchsky #crystals #tektites

Obsidian in the Caribbean islands? Mysterious Ceramic Age glass artefacts in the Lesser Antilles
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#Andesite #CeramicAge #impactites #LesserAntilles #Obsidian #tektites

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