ejecta

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A companion paper examining the gravity and ejecta structure of the basin, "Gravity Mapping of Lunar Mantle Material in South Pole-Aitken Basin Ejecta," was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.

From Science Daily • Jun. 22, 2026

“If a piece of Moon ejecta is linked to a particular crater, that’s very exciting.”

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

The supernova’s ejecta expands in an “hourglass shape” as it impacts this disk.

From Scientific American • Jul. 21, 2023

Lots of carbon comes up with kimberlite ejecta, but most is vaporized or turns to graphite.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson