Impact microcraters on an Australasian microtektite

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Jan 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996m%26ps...31...46p&link_type=abstract

Meteoritics and Planetary Science, Vol. 31, p. 46-49 (1996)

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Microcraters attributable to impact have been discovered on an Australasian microtektite from a core in the Central Indian Basin. The craters resemble lunar microcraters and those generated during impact experiments. The largest crater here, which has a welded promontory, is unique. The projectiles that produced the impacts defined varying trajectories and velocities, ranging from hypervelocity to low velocity (a few 10 m/s). The impacts took place while the microtektite was in flight at an elevated target temperature. This is the first observation of the microimpact phenomenon on a microtektite.

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