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English: Sourced from various locations including China, Southeast Asia, and the United States is this collection of tektites - dark-colored blobs of naturally occurring glass formed by the melting of rock and sand after a meteorite impact - which is now displayed in the "35 Centuries of Glass" gallery at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. As seen during a March 2023 visit.
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Camera location42° 08′ 44.42″ N, 77° 03′ 16.71″ W  Heading=343.56427015251° Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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