tektite

Tibetan Indochinite – a birthday gift from my close friend.

as i’ve come to understand, tektite is a result of interstellar objects like meteors, asteroids, and comets colliding with Earth millions of years ago. the impacts ejected superheated terrestrial material which quickly cooled into glassy tektite as it returned to Earth’s surface. so f--king cool!

tek•tite \ˈtek-ˌtīt\ n [ISV, fr. Gk tēktos molten, fr. tēkein to melt – more at THAW] (1909) : a glassy body of probably meteoritic origin and of rounded but indefinite shape – tek•tit•ic \tek-ˈti-tik\ adj

Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition