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Synonyms for ejection

the act of ejecting or the state of being ejected

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The radar data show that Terra Laboris and surrounding crater ejecta sits atop mare lava.
Close to the crater rim, this ejecta deposit forms a continuous blanket smothering the underlying terrain; further out, the ejecta lands as a scattered assortment of fine grained dust and larger bombs that may themselves form small secondary craters.
Ejecta of the fruit bats supports a great diversity of organisms including arthropods, fungi, bacteria and lichens (Ferreira and Martins, 1998) and are most common sources of pathogenic and other mycofauna distribution.
For a given GRB-SN event there are both relativistic and nonrelativistic ejecta, where the former is responsible for producing the prompt emission, and the latter is associated with the SN itself.
Many craters show prominent central peaks and terraced walls and are surrounded by ejecta blankets of matter thrown out by the impacts.
The bright ejecta patch around the large Kuiper crater was the most conspicuous feature.
Given the explosion's characteristics, the most probable explanation for the uber-radiance is that the light comes from a blast wave created as supernova ejecta collide with a dense shell of material thrown off sometime before the explosion, Emmanouil Chatzopoulos of the University of Texas at Austin and colleagues report in the March 10 Astrophysical Journal.
"Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapour plume and the ejecta curtain created by the LCROSS Centaur impact.
The high-resolution images from the Sim-8 clearly show the cloud of ejecta thrown backwards on impact and also demonstrates that even though the projectile disintegrates on impact, the fragments maintain the original projectile shape ahead of the main fragment cloud.
Another application for Herbert's angled roller belt technology is the Ejecta, an automatic sorting conveyor which--as the name suggests--provides a simple sorting system that provides a line feed by ejecting baggage off one side of the conveyor.
The sandy ejecta deposit under study has a transitional position between the coarse-grained, mainly carbonate breccia layer and debris-rich carbonate layers of the post-impact cover (Ainsaar et al.
For those who want to really maximize recoil reduction, powder also constitutes part of the ejecta, and, as Mr.
General topics include instrumentation and data analysis, molecular clouds, star formation, solar system and extrasolar planets, circumstellar matter and ejecta, interstellar medium, stars, extragalactic and cosmology.