You never know what you will find hunting artifacts.!!!!

[monsterrack]

This was found last week in Ms. by a friend of a friend
It is a tektite that was blasted by a meteor from the Chesapeake Bay impact site. It's the first to be found in Ms.and is a gem grade piece of material. I have already posted this in the meteor section.Just thought you guys would like to see it.

 

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[Koalajones]

Really cool, getting a piece of meteor is on my bucket list awsome pictures

 

[mirage83]

Beautiful specimen.

 

[dognose]

That is really amazing. Nice!

 

[digging440yrs]

 

[Tdog]

I would not have recognized it as that. Gem is right!

 

[tnmudman]

Wow! Thats beautiful. So your saying this thing flew all all the way from the Chesapeake bay to on impact to land in Mississippi?

 

[tnmudman]

Ok, thought about that a minute lol. I guess it was carried there as a trade item.

 

[arrow86]

Neat find , I would have picked it up but absolutely never would have identified it as that. Was that your call on the ID?

 

[Kray Gelder]

Wow! Thats beautiful. So your saying this thing flew all all the way from the Chesapeake bay to on impact to land in Mississippi?

Could very well have been thrown that far, according to this.

 

[old digger]

That is fantastic! I wonder if it is Peridot? Just wondered in what circumstances did they find it?

 

[monsterrack]

Ok, thought about that a minute lol. I guess it was carried there as a trade item.

No the impact threw debri for 7,000 miles, all the way to Texas.

 

[monsterrack]

Neat find , I would have picked it up but absolutely never would have identified it as that. Was that your call on the ID?

It took 3 folks and a microscope.

 

[tnmudman]

Thats truly amazing!

 

[arrow86]

It took 3 folks and a microscope.

Teamwork lol.... and than you also get to ponder if any NAs picked it up and held onto it as a important item

 

[Charl]

Could very well have been thrown that far, according to this.

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That is fantastic! I wonder if it is Peridot? Just wondered in what circumstances did they find it?

If that's the first such example known from Ms., then how cool is that?! Tektites are not technically meteorites. They are a form of impact created glass, formed from terrestrial matter thrown into the atmosphere at the time of impact. Primarily silica. It's not peridot, but rather impact glass. The tektites found in the North American strewn field were first discovered in Texas. All known North Anerican tektites originated from the Chesapeake Bay impact event:


https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/gpt01



"[FONT=crimson_textroman]Tektites were first recognized in North America from Grimes County, Texas. These tektites were named bediasites after the Bedias Indians, who formerly roamed the area. As tektites from the same event, around 35 million years ago, are found in Georgia, Barbados, and Martha's Vineyard (a lone specimen), and as microtektites are found as far away as the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, the bediasites are now included as a part of the North American strewn field".

In the European strewn field, concentrated in the Czech Republic, they are known as Moldavites. Created by a different impact event. There are several tektite strewn fields around the world, associated with meteoritic impacts. I've collected meteorites since the early 80's, but only own a couple of tektites, and none from North America. [/FONT]

 

[RustyRelics]

A beautiful piece! I would have thought it was a chewed up marble.

 

[ticndig]

that's too cool , if not a friend of a friends I would have voted banner.. thanks for showing and thanks to everyone who provided the information.

 

[GaRebel1861]

How cool of a find! Now, I want to find one.

 

[monsterrack]

Just a note on this item, around midweek the state will test it's primary elements so we are100% sure what it is. Then it will be donated to the Natural History and Science Museum in Jackson MS. Also nether the finder or the land owner wants anything out of this and no fame at all.