ejecta

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It was long thought that high-speed collisions pulverized the comet ejecta, but now a 45-member team of researchers reports, in a paper published online in the journal Icarus this week, that heat is to blame.

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 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

But then sometime between day 200 and 1000 the ejecta must have clashed with the hollow ring of star stuff, causing it to light up again.

From Space Scoop • Mar. 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