Aerodynamically shaped australite; the button shape is caused by ablation of molten glass in the atmosphere during reentry.
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 used the shape of "flanged button" australites in designing re-entry modules for the Apollo program in the 1960s.[1]
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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...
strewnfield Approximate age: 0.77–0.78 million years), no confirmed crater: Australites (Australia, dark, mostly black); Indochinites (South East Asia, dark...
isotope composition similar to the composition of Australasian tektites (australites) and Ivory Coast tektites (ivorites). Most moldavites are from South...
impacts are thought to be responsible for the existence of tektites and australites. Fear of comets as acts of God and signs of impending doom was highest...
allowed this population easier access to stones useful for tool-making. Australite Glossary of meteoritics Indochinite List of possible impact structures...
same name appeared.: 317 Tasmanite or tasmanian australites are a regional Tasmanian form of australites,: 12 the most common type of tektite, a glass...
Anstey Hill, South Australia, 1939 Australites, Part 1, Classification of the W. H. C. Shaw collection, 1934 Australites, Part 2, Numbers, forms, distribution...
of Bushmen objects was given to the Pitt Rivers museum at Oxford, his australites and pebbles went to the British Museum, and his collection of Victorian...
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