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
Remote observations show that distant ejecta in CE-5 regolith mainly come from four impact craters, and the Aristarchus crater is the youngest among the four distant craters.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 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
