“Tektites,” announced the cashier, handing over a photocopied paper that indicated they formed in a mysterious meteorite strike—Earth’s last major impact, in fact, a catastrophic collision ...

Scientists believe tektites formed from Earth material that melted upon meteorite impact and were thrown into our atmosphere, before falling back to the ground. “Their existence means that the ...

Rolfe Erickson carries the black, pebble-sized object everywhere. At any time, he will pull it out of his pocket and reel off what he believes to be its 2.7 million-year history. No one is safe ...

The impact of the 1.2 mile-wide meteorite flung debris across 10% of the planet's surface. Scientists have found this ancient debris, mostly in the form of glass blobs known as tektites ...

571, on the origin of tektites, the strongest argument against his suggestion that they were formed by the fusion of terrestrial material in meteorite craters is that no tektite has yet been ...

Researchers were led to the impact site by a set of small black glassy objects called tektites, which scientists believe were formed from Earth material that melted from the meteorite’s impact.

A large meteorite can launch bits of molten rock into the atmosphere when it impacts Earth. When that molten rock cools, it forms tektites, shown here. Photo by Robert Eastman / Alamy Stock Photo ...

But one major meteorite impact that occurred roughly 800,000 years ago has long baffled researchers. They know it happened because millions of blobs of glass known as tektites were launched over 1 ...

J. Spencer that tektites have been formed by the fusion of terrestrial rocks by the fall of very large meteorites has given rise to an interesting discussion, but, being unexpectedly novel ...