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impactite en · NOUN

Etymology

From impact + -ite.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any rock created or modified by the impact of a meteorite.
   • Impactite is the term used for all rocks produced or affected by a hypervelocity impact event. 2012, G. R. Osinski, Impact Cratering: Processes and Products:
   • Furthermore, the probability that the distribution of "lunar impactite" falls over the Earth's surface would exhibit the alinement along 3 great circles, which is characteristic of all known tektite deposits, is vanishingly small. 1944, Popular Astronomy, volume 52, page 195:

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impactor