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dc.contributor.authorShyamPrasad, M.
dc.contributor.authorSudhakar, M.
dc.date.accessioned2008-02-22T05:31:30Z
dc.date.available2008-02-22T05:31:30Z
dc.date.issued1998
dc.identifier.citationMeteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol.33(6); 1271-1279p.
dc.identifier.urihttp://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/981
dc.description.abstractDetailed investigations of the microimpact phenomena on Australasian microtektites from four samples from the Central Indian Basin reveal an array of features, such as very low-velocity captured droplets, welded projectiles, angular fragments and dust, craters generated by projectiles defining an oblique trajectory, high-velocity "pitless" craters, and the conventional hypervelocity craters with well-defined central pits and radial and concentric cracks-found commonly on lunar surface materials. The microimpacts are a consequence of interparticle collisions within the ejecta plume (as suggested by their chemistry) subsequent to a major impact and, therefore, reveal processes inherent in an impact-generated plume. All the impact phenomena observed here have taken place while the targets and projectiles were in flight and are therefore secondary impacts in lunar terms. However, some of the resultant features are analogous to lunar microcraters attributed to primary impacts by cosmic dust. Therefore, ballistic sedimentation on the Moon is likely to contain plume collisional debris as well
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMeteoritical Society
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dc.subjectmicrotektites
dc.subjectCentral Indian Basin
dc.subjectejecta plume
dc.subjectsedimentation
dc.subjectlunar surface processes
dc.titleMicroimpact phenomena on Australasian microtektites: Implications for ejecta plume characteristics and lunar surface processes
dc.typeJournal Article


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