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    Tektites (from Ancient Greek τηκτός (tēktós) 'molten') are gravel-sized bodies composed of black, green, brown or grey natural glass formed from terrestrial...
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    The Tektite habitat was an underwater laboratory which was the home to divers during Tektite I and II programs. The Tektite program was the first scientists-in-the-sea...
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  • The North American tektite strewn field is a large area, known as a strewn field, in North America defined by the presence of tektites consistent with having...
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    project Tektite's conceptual origins within the U.S space program).[citation needed] The Tektite II missions were carried out in 1970. Tektite II comprised...
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    Ries Crater) that occurred about 15 million years ago. It is a type of tektite and a gemstone. Material ejected from the impact crater includes moldavite...
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    Tasmanite are tektites found in Tasmania, a regional form of australite, the most common type of tektite, glass of meteorite origin, traditionally named...
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    The Australasian strewnfield is the youngest and largest of the tektite strewnfields, with recent estimates suggesting it might cover 10%–30% of the Earth's...
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    An Indochinite is a type of tektite. Tektites were ejected into the Earth's upper atmosphere by a meteorite impact and subsequently cooled to form the...
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    Georgiaite is a rare form of tektite found only in the state of Georgia in the southeastern United States. These tektites are found in part of the North...
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    Australasian Tektite Field Meteoritics, June 1977, Vol 12, Issue 2, p. 145–157 B.P. Glass (1979), Zhamanshin crater, a possible source of Australasian tektites? Geology...
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    Australites are tektites found in Australia. They are mostly dark or black, and have shapes including discs and bowls that are not seen in other tektites. NASA...
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    touring nuclear power plants. The Tektite glass is based on a spectrographic analysis Simpson had performed on a natural tektite. He recreated this material...
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    needed] The impact has been identified as the source of the North American tektite field, namely the Georgiaite and Bediasite fields. Until 1983 there was...
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    Coniglio, J.; Pinotti, Lucio; Evers, V.; Kearsley, Anton; (2002); "A possible tektite strewn field in the Argentinian Pampa", Science, volume 296, issue 5570...
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    Tektite Project in 1969 there was a great deal of otitis externa. The Diving Medical Officer devised a prophylaxis that came to be known as, "Tektite...
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    divers began installation of the Tektite habitat in Great Lameshur Bay at Lameshur, U.S. Virgin Islands. The Tektite program was funded by NASA and was...
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    Philippinites, or rizalites are tektites found in the Philippines. They are considered to be about 710,000 years old on the average and generally ranging...
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    000 years ago, based on associated find of tektites, however this claim has been challenged because tektites are often found in archaeological sites of...
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    of California, Berkeley (1969–1981). In 1969, she applied to join the Tektite Project, an installation fifty feet below the surface of the sea off the...
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  • meteorite they encountered but by sub-atomic robots it carried called "tektites" that entered their bloodstreams. The same comic book series revealed that...
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    glass, tasmanite or tasmanian black glasses, one of the types of tasmanian tektites, is a natural glass found south of Queenstown in West Coast, Tasmania....
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    Underwater habitat Aquarius Reef Base Continental Shelf Station Two Helgoland Habitat Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station SEALAB Tektite habitat...
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  • a regional Tasmanian form of australites,: 12  the most common type of tektite, a glass of meteoritic origin, traditionally named after its geographic...
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    single fall are dispersed. It is also often used for the area containing tektites produced by large meteorite impact. There are two strewnfield formation...
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    NCR began the installation of the Tektite habitat in Great Lameshur Bay at Lameshur, U.S. Virgin Islands. The Tektite program was funded by NASA and was...
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    Bediasite is a form or type of tektite, which is a body of natural glass formed from earth debris during meteorite impact events. It originates in an...
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  • SEALAB – Experimental underwater habitats developed by the United States Navy Tektite habitat – Undersea laboratory and experimental habitat Built-in breathing...
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  • called "tektites", sub-atomic robots that can heal and rebuild the body, defeating death. All of the test subjects are injected with tektites and then...
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  • Sideromelane, volcanic glass – non-crystalline, an iron rich, silica poor glass Tektite, meteoritic silica rich glass Water, e.g. as inclusions in other crystals...
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    Underwater habitat Aquarius Reef Base Continental Shelf Station Two Helgoland Habitat Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station SEALAB Tektite habitat...
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