How to Use impactor in a Sentence

impactor

noun

• The impactor that formed the Moon, on the other hand, may have been about the size of Mars.
  — Alka Tripathy-Lang, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
• Spring: Roads are a key impactor for wildlife around the world.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
• As for who’s right about the true origin of the Chicxulub impactor?
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• Instead, the mass could come from an ancient impactor, the team argues.
  — National Geographic, 11 June 2019
• With that in mind, the researchers calculated an estimate of the size of the impactor.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2018
• For decades, scientists have searched for the elusive resting place of the impactor that coated the Earth with debris.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
• After the large impactor smashed into the planet, some of the debris formed a disk that flew up to circle the Martian equator.
  — Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com, 18 Apr. 2018
• As for how this years-long process of impactor detective work got started?
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
• Scientists have suggested that the impactor was about 10 percent of the mass of Earth — just larger than Mars.
  — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2020
• Can anything yet be determined about the original size of the impactor?
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
• The crater wasn't as obvious as expected, but is about the right size given the impactor speed, mass, and angle of impact.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 16 Feb. 2011
• Within moments the six-mile-wide chunk of rock, known as the Chicxulub impactor, caused tsunamis so large that the Great Plains were overwhelmed with water.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2023
• So even though the impactor loses its water, some of it is recaptured as the melt rapidly quenches.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2018
• The walls of the crater indicate that the impactor arrived at a considerable angle.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2022
• That’s quite a lot, considering the impactor itself was only half a ton.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2023
• For one thing, Deep Impact was an all-in-one mission, with an observer and impactor on board one spacecraft.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2012
• The theory invoked an impactor the size of Mars or—in recent variants—much smaller.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2021
• This consisted of a lunar orbiter and an impactor that helped confirm the existence of water ice on the Moon.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 22 July 2019
• These rocks were exiled from Mars after impactors struck the planet’s surface and kicked debris into space.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
• While 30% to 50% of the rock struck by the Chicxulub impactor was made up of evaporite deposits like salt and gypsum, almost none of that material is found in the core.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 15 Sep. 2019
• This impact occurred just under 66 million years ago by an impactor that may have been up to 80 kilometers across!
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2019
• The goal of the test was to see how well a kinetic impactor would work at changing an asteroid’s orbit and trajectory.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 Sep. 2022
• The energy that must have been deposited by an impactor to cause the formation of Chicxulub crater.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• And, in the process, the articles indicate that impactors like DART could be a viable means of protecting the planet from small asteroids.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2023
• Barely a month later, an impactor spacecraft named Dart will give chase to a double-asteroid closer to home.
  — NBC News, 15 Oct. 2021
• This wide age range fertilized speculations that the Boltysh impactor, beating Chicxulub’s to Earth by a hair, acted as the first of a one-two punch that wiped out the dinosaurs.
  — She En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2021
• Yet the chaotic period of impacts predicted in the Nice model provides a source of impactors during the exact era in question.
  — Erica Jawin, Scientific American, 2 July 2019
• In short-warning scenarios, kinetic impactors like DART would not be enough.
  — NBC News, 6 Apr. 2018
• The huge space rock known as the Chicxulub impactor is widely believed to have ended the reign of non-avian dinosaurs, altering the planet's climate and paving the way for mammals to rise from the proverbial ashes.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2024
• With this new evidence, researchers also confidently rule out a comet as the Chicxulub impactor and can now theorize about their ancient Archean samples.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024