impactite

English

Etymology

From impact +‎ -ite.

Noun

impactite (countable and uncountable, plural impactites)

1. Any rock created or modified by the impact of a meteorite.
   • 1944, Popular Astronomy, volume 52, page 195:

     Furthermore, the probability that the distribution of "lunar impactite" falls over the Earth's surface would exhibit the alinement along 3 great circles, which is characteristic of all known tektite deposits, is vanishingly small.

   • 2012, G. R. Osinski, Impact Cratering: Processes and Products:

     Impactite is the term used for all rocks produced or affected by a hypervelocity impact event.

Related terms

• impactor