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For #MeteoriteMonday, I bring you this superb specimen of Libyan Desert Glass (LDG).

LDG was created by an ancient #meteorite impact in what is now the Egyptian and Libyan Sahara - this fused the remnants of the vaporized meteorite with the silica-rich material in the impact zone. This process produced tons of LDG fragments which were scattered across a wide area.

Technically, LDG is not a meteorite. It is a #tektite or #impactite, but it is prized by meteorite collectors.

#meteoritics

For #MeteoriteMonday, I bring you this superb specimen of Libyan Desert Glass (LDG).

LDG was created by an ancient #meteorite impact in what is now the Egyptian and Libyan Sahara - this fused the remnants of the vaporized meteorite with the silica-rich material in the impact zone. This process produced tons of LDG fragments which were scattered across a wide area.

Technically, LDG is not a meteorite. It is a #tektite or #impactite, but it is prized by meteorite collectors.

#meteoritics

Timeline cleanser.

Libyan Desert Glass (LDG).

LDG is an #impactite formed when a massive #meteorite slammed into the Saharan Desert in ancient times.

Scientists are still not 100% sure exactly when or where the impact took place, but they are working on it.

The Egyptians prized it for jewelry and King Tut had a scarab beetle fashioned from LDG. - Link : https://www.archaeology.org/issues/353-1909/trenches/7923-trenches-egypt-tut-desert-glass

This piece weighs 600 carats and is in the Galactic Stone & Ironworks collection.

#PlanetaryScience

Timeline cleanser.

Libyan Desert Glass (LDG).

LDG is an #impactite formed when a massive #meteorite slammed into the Saharan Desert in ancient times.

Scientists are still not 100% sure exactly when or where the impact took place, but they are working on it.

The Egyptians prized it for jewelry and King Tut had a scarab beetle fashioned from LDG. - Link : https://www.archaeology.org/issues/353-1909/trenches/7923-trenches-egypt-tut-desert-glass

This piece weighs 600 carats and is in the Galactic Stone & Ironworks collection.

#PlanetaryScience

Libyan Desert Glass. Large, top-grade individual covered in ventifact dimples and contains cristobalite inclusions.

LDG is a tektite glass created by a massive and ancient meteorite impact in the Egyptian Sahara.

King Tut famously had a scarab beetle pendant carved from LDG.

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