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Hi everyone, I started following this thread a little late so I probably should not add my two cents worth but I can't help it <<G>>. Surely you don't suggest that the moon is the source of tektites? Nearly all of the experts agree that the moon is no longer considered the source for tektites. Except for just a handful who won't give it up and don't seem to be listening to the known facts. The absence of silica-rich lunar rocks effecticely rules out a suggested lunar origin for these objects! These objects have an Earth origin. In some cases the parent crater _is known_. An example of this is the moldavites recovered in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia are most very likely from Ries Crater in southeastern Germany. Tektites contain mostly terrestrial material, although some meteoritic spice <<G>> is contain in just a few. I am by no mean an expert of this subject but have read abundant books on the subject of meteorites where tektites are given a few pages. It may be that the source of some of the information on tektites you have read are old and there fore out dated. I do know the widely held idea of the origin of tektites no longer include the moon. Its your shot now <<G>>, go easy on me. –AL