Raw Libyan Desert Glass LDG Gold Tektite Sterling Silver Bail Pendant. buying 3.7 grams

Genuine LDG Libyan Desert Glass tektite set onto a solid sterling silver bail.

3.7 grams

The Libyan Desert Glass (LDG) is a naturally occurring glass made of silica (silicon dioxide). It is generally found in the Libyan Desert – the Western Desert of Egypt, widely scattered along the Libyan-Egyptian border (the Great Erg). Scientists say the glass is the largest known deposit of natural silica glass on the planet Earth (about 98% SiO2). The transparent-to-translucent pieces are clear-to-opaque white or yellow-to-green in colour, which glitter like gems in the bright desert sun. The pieces vary in size from small to large chunks, weighing up to 16 pounds. The glass was known to the ancient Egyptians who used it in Tutankhamen's scarab pendant and who called it "the Rock of God"; while according to some sources it was even known to prehistoric wo-man as it was used for palaeolithic tools, such as sharp blades, dating to about 10,000 years ago.

The yellow-green scarab at the heart of Tutanhkamen (Tutankhamon) pendant is made of Libyan glass. Apparently the jewel was reported to be older than the earliest Egyptian civilisation and as such it was connected with alien theories. The truth of the matter is that the stone is naturally millions of buying years older than any human civilisation but the jewel in which it is found is not.
According to the New Scientist:

"Crackpot theories linking the pyramids to aliens abound. So I am surprised to learn that one such link has a solid basis in science. It turns out that King Tut's necklace was made with the help of a meteorite. A glass scarab beetle in the necklace appears to have been made from sand melted by a meteorite crashing in the Egyptian desert. The necklace was excavated from the pharaoh's tomb in the 1920s, but no one had any inkling of its meteoritic origins until 1999, when Italian scientists chemically tested the glass. They found it to be made of "Libyan desert glass", which comes exclusively from the Great Sand Sea at the Egyptian-Libyan border."

The fission track dates of the glass indicate that it is at least 29 million years old (New Scientist). The origin of the glass is not known, and various theories have been put forward to explain its abundance in the Libyan Desert, some of which are out of this world, literally, like nuclear explosions, Tunguska event, and alien activities. But scientific research, based on the traces of iridium found on the glass, seems to conclude that the glass was formed as a result of a natural meteor impact sometimes in the distant past, or as a result of a comet impact.
A massive [alien] meteor came down hurtling from the sky like a fireball, crashing somewhere in the Libyan desert, generating a tremendous amount of heat on impact (at least 1600 degrees Celsius), blasting the gentle sand up into the sky before it rained liquid glass.
The glass is a form of tektite, a word which comes from the Greek word tektos, meaning molten. However, it is not known yet if tektites were first produced on the moon and then ejected as meteorites which landed on earth or whether they were produced as a result of impact on earth. Another theory has it that the glass was not a result of a meteor impact but of a "radiative melting from meteoric aerial bursts", making the glass analogous to trinitite