ejecta
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“They are able to show that ejecta from a crater the size of the Giordano Bruno … could survive for a long enough timescale in a co-orbital zone around Earth.”
From Science Magazine • Apr. 19, 2024
"To create these ions that we observed in the ejecta, it was clear that there had to be a source of high-energy radiation in the center of the SN 1987A remnant," Fransson said.
From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 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
The supernova’s ejecta expands in an “hourglass shape” as it impacts this disk.
From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2023
The desert plains are giving way to bumpier terrain, strewn with ejecta that never got buried by sand.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
