Australites are tektites found in Australia. They are mostly dark or black, and have shapes including discs and bowls that are not seen in other tektites. NASA used the shape of `flanged button` australites in designing re-entry modules for the Apollo program in the 1960s. ==History== Indigenous Australians termed australites ooga (`staring eye......
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(from the article `tektite`) Australites and related forms comprise about 10 percent of the tektites found in Australia. They show a characteristic lenslike form, with an ...
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