Darwin Glass from Tasmania Australia 3.29g Individual Impact Glass impactite To this day

To this day

58 gram piece of a pretty amazing meteorite known as Tatahouine

I have hunted the strewn field myself several times and was able to recover a few small pieces for my own collection

Mesosiderites are brecciated stony-iron meteorites that contain nearly equal amounts of metal and silicates

<10 µm-sized

Darwin Glass from Tasmania Australia 3.29g Individual Impact Glass impactite To this dayDarwin glass is an impactite. Its a glass made up of a part of the earths crust that melted when an iron meteorite crashed into western Tasmania almost one million years ago. This impact generated a large amount of energy (enough to melt the crust, picture probably the equivalent of several atomic bombs), and created the Darwin Crater. Many craters around the world have glass which formed from the heat of the impact. But, the Mount Darwin Crater has