* Astronomy

Western partners with NASA to uncover new hypothesis on crater debris

A team of researchers partnered with the NASA Lunar Science Institute has developed a new hypothesis for the origin of crater ejecta - debris that is launched out of a crater during meteorite impacts.
These findings may help scientists target samples for extraction during future missions to asteroids and terrestrial bodies such as Mercury, Venus, the moon and Mars. The results are published in the Sept. 21, 2011, issue of the Elsevier journal, Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
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