Dimensions: 82.1 x 55.7 x 20.3 mm max.
Name: EDEOWIE GLASS
Location: PARACHILNA, 31º 10' S 138º 20' E
Country: SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Date: Find: March, 2008
Weight: 73.72 g

In the South Australian Outback between the Flinders Ranges and the salt pan of Lake Torrens, roughly 400 km north of Adelaide and about 10 - 16 km west of the ranges, irregular masses and flat slabs of visicular, slaglike and glassy silicate melt has been found, locally quite abundant. These slabs of melt are associated with outcrops of baked sediments exhumed by water erosion and deflation. Embedded clasts displaying shock metamorphism in quartz suggest that the thermal source may have been an impact event allthough a crater could not be located.

But do we need a crater to explain a hit from a celestial body? What about an air burst like the Tunguska event? No crater has been found here either.

On that day of June 30th in 1908 at 7:17 a.m. an explosion of such an immense force was heard in the very heart of Eastern Siberia, as if a nuclear bomb of 20 Megatons TNT equivalent exploded over the territory that is presently known to be called Evenkia. What was it? Researchers Evgeniy and Natalya Kolesnikov more than 20 years involved to solve the mystery had taken core samples of peat bogs at the site. Laboratory analysis of the 1908 peat layers compared to control samples revealed isotopic anomalities in carbon and hydrogen which after excluding all other possible environmental influences, can be assumed to have been introduced by an extraterrestrial source. Their hypothesis is that the celestial body was a small loosely packed comet-like body made up of a combination of the volatile elements H, C, O, N and S.

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EDEOWIE GLASS is a mysterious and rare Impact specimen.

Isotopic dating was undertaken by the Open University, UK, using 40Ar/39Ar laser probe. The obtained age is 0.67 ± 0.07 Ma. The glassy melt is typically black but undergoes oxidation to a red-brown material. In thin section colour can vary from black to brown to virtual colourless.

This is a Specimen not to be missed in a Meteorite or Mineral Collection.

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