In 2013 she was selected for a DoE Early Career Award for her work on hypervelocity impact plasmas, and also awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
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"We believe Columbia was hit by a piece of electronic circuit board, " says Eric Christiansen, chief analyst at the Hypervelocity Impact Test Facility at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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Such materials-as a suite-formerly considered to be unique to hypervelocity impacts, have been identified in fulgurites, including highly reduced silicon-metal alloys ( silicides ), the fullerene polymorphs of SiO 2, in fulgurites.
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This week scientists from the Open University and Oxford Brookes University will tell the Hypervelocity Impact Symposium in Galveston, Texas, that these particles, just a few micrometers across, pose a serious threat.
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A thick lateral layer between the ( meta ) sedimentary Gunflint Iron Formation and overlying Rove Formation, and between the Biwabik Iron Formation and overlying Virginia Formation has evidence that the layer contains hypervelocity impact ejecta.
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The "'Whipple shield "'or "'Whipple bumper "', invented by Fred Whipple, is a type of hypervelocity impact shield used to protect manned and unmanned spacecraft from collisions with micrometeoroids and orbital debris whose velocities generally range between.
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The material had to have been created in a hypervelocity impact between two large bodies; relative velocities at impacts less than 10 km / s would not transform the ubiquitous olivine and pyroxene into silica and SiO gas.
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For example, one problem with the lunar origin theory is that the arguments for it that are based upon the behavior of glass melts use data from pressures and temperatures that are vastly uncharacteristic of and unrelated to the extreme conditions of hypervelocity impacts.
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Verneshots have been proposed as a causal mechanism explaining the statistically unlikely contemporaneous occurrence of continental flood basalts, mass extinctions, and " impact signals " ( such as planar deformation features, shocked quartz, and iridium anomalies ) traditionally considered definitive evidence of hypervelocity impact events.
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This is especially relevant in the field of space exploration and military use of space, where hypervelocity impacts ( e . g . by space debris or an attacking projectile ) can result in anything from minor component degradation to the complete destruction of a spacecraft or missile.
