Abstract
A phenomenological study is made of the formation of tektites from a meteorite impacting on the earth. The calculation shows that, if the meteorite that caused the Ries Kessel crater ejected large fragments from the parent meteorite at speeds of ∼18 km/sec, these particles would interact with the terrestrial ejecta at the start of the recoil trajectory. A hypersonic ablation calculation at 18 km/sec is made for a single large fragment by extrapolating H. Hoshizaki's (1962) model for the heat transfer rate at an axisymmetric stagnation point. The results of these calculations show that this physical model can yield the size and distribution of the tektite field being considered and can also account for many of the various tektite characteristics. The analysis in this paper is limited only to observations; thus, all refinements that do not clarify the basic physical model have been ignored.
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