How to Use impactor in a Sentence

impactor

noun

• Most of the top fly ball impactors in the game also hit their line drives very hard.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
• As for how this years-long process of impactor detective work got started?
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
• Instead, the mass could come from an ancient impactor, the team argues.
  — National Geographic, 11 June 2019
• 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
• As for who’s right about the true origin of the Chicxulub impactor?
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• That’s quite a lot, considering the impactor itself was only half a ton.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2023
• Can anything yet be determined about the original size of the impactor?
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2022
• Szabo says finding one of these potential impactors is still like finding a needle in a haystack.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
• 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
• With that in mind, the researchers calculated an estimate of the size of the impactor.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2018
• This is the crowd-control class, where one use of the impactor can electrocute an entire group of Hiss in one fell swoop.
  — Jason Fanelli, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2025
• 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
• The walls of the crater indicate that the impactor arrived at a considerable angle.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2022
• The theory invoked an impactor the size of Mars or—in recent variants—much smaller.
  — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Barely a month later, an impactor spacecraft named Dart will give chase to a double-asteroid closer to home.
  — NBC News, 15 Oct. 2021
• 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
• 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
• But, especially when an impactor is big, most of it propagates into the mantle below.
  — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 5 July 2026
• The land of the southern hemisphere pulled away from this vile impactor, restructuring itself in the northern hemisphere.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 May 2026
• 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
• And why reinvent the Chicxulub impactor wheel when asteroid impactors might work after all?
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• The energy that must have been deposited by an impactor to cause the formation of Chicxulub crater.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 May 2021
• 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
• Central peaks are a common feature of large craters, their formation a condition of the relative sizes of the impactor and its target.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025
• The impact also left behind a thin layer of chromium-rich dust which suggested the impactor must have been a carbonaceous chondrite rock type.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2021
• Scientists have suggested that the impactor was about 10 percent of the mass of Earth — just larger than Mars.
  — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2020
• However, impactors are also excavators, carving into the crust of the parent body.
  — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Oct. 2025