“Tektite II’s all-female mission furthered the idea that women could perform as well as (or better than) men in extreme environments, providing evidence that helped encourage NASA to begin training women as astronauts in 1978.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/women-aquanauts-tektite-ii

#Tektite #aquanaut #diversity #NASA

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

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.

#tektite #impactite #meteorite #geology