ejecta
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Several are surrounded by ejecta blankets, debris blasted outward during the original impacts.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
“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
"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
The desert plains are giving way to bumpier terrain, strewn with ejecta that never got buried by sand.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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