spherule

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Alongside previously reported spherules, carbon, meltglass, and rare minerals, they documented shocked quartz displaying a wide variety of crack patterns.

From Science Daily

They were looking for spherule particles, or tiny fragments of rock, left behind by impact.

From BBC

We recovered the materials from that meteor in the form of spherules — molten droplets from the surface of the object.

From Salon

But Desch says the speed at which an interstellar meteorite of this composition entered the atmosphere would burn everything up and there wouldn't be any spherules like these left.

From Salon

But given the spherules’ small size—one weighed only 27 micrograms—teasing out that signal could be a challenge.

From Science Magazine