Sentence examples for the impactor from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of several machines or devices in which a part impacts on another, or on a material
How long did the "impactor" travel to reach its target?
Dr. Asphaug said it could be that Vesta was always the target, never the impactor, and was thus less affected.
"Most of the time, the impactor and the target go off on their merry ways," Dr. Asphaug said.
Scientists have thought of these collisions as mergers: a smaller object (the impactor) hits a larger one (the target) and sticks to it.
-In the NASA experiment, the comet itself was moving (at a speed of 23,000 miles an hour) while the impactor device was relatively still.
The origin of the impactor itself remains an open question.
A hardened steel ball was used as the impactor.
In comparison, wall losses, perpendicular to the impactor plate were dependent on both the impactor angle and flow rate.
That was the impactor, a clothes-washer-size, copper-laden bullet, penetrating the surface.
Also, the contact force changes proportionally with the impactor velocity.
The impactor strikes the ground, throwing up debris.
