Where do meteorites of different types come from? In a review paper in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, ...

This alignment suggests that the impact’s ejecta—the debris ejected by the asteroid—created a gravitational ... Hirata used ...

Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of ... Melted Rock These pieces of once-molten rock, called impact ejecta, are evidence of an explosion powerful enough to instantly ...

Many of them are caused by the ejecta from an asteroid impact falling back to the ... from the central impact point that can be seen on a map of the planet's surface even today.