The physics of hypervelocity impacts causes impact craters to be radially symmetric
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SUPPORTED
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The physics of hypervelocity and high-energy impacts generally produces centrally symmetric or quasicircular craters, provided the impact is perpendicular rather than oblique.
Evidence for · 2
Surface damage from perpendicular and oblique bullet impacts in stone.
2022 · cited by 6
Paper 6 discusses how perpendicular impacts create symmetric craters, contrasting them with asymmetric oblique impacts.
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Erosion of lunar surface rocks by impact processes: A synthesis.
2020 · cited by 4
Paper 9 notes that impact processes in rocks are centrally to bilaterally symmetric, producing quasicircular depressions.