How to pronounce“tektites”in English

Meaning these tektites could be a 66 million-year-old relic of that very impact.

**That’s actually how types of tektites are named.

Then they found tektites - big tear-dropped shaped pieces of glass that form when rocks are thrown into the atmosphere by an impact and then melt on re-entry.

In the modern day, they’re called tektites, from the Greek word for 'molten'.

Using our knowledge of radioactive decay, we can determine how old different tektites are.