ejecta

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If the researchers are right, and Tianwen-2 brings some of the asteroid back to Earth, it would be the first time scientists would be able to study a piece of lunar ejecta, Cheng says.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 19, 2024

It was long thought that high-speed collisions pulverized the comet ejecta, but now a 45-member team of researchers reports, in a paper published online in the journal Icarus this week, that heat is to blame.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2024

"We actually used the equations of volcanoes to predict how fast ejecta would fly - 90 meters per second," he told BBC News.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2023

“It could have gone really badly. They could have had the vehicle destroyed on the launchpad from ejecta hitting it.”

From Scientific American • May 4, 2023

Lots of carbon comes up with kimberlite ejecta, but most is vaporized or turns to graphite.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson