What is "impacts"

Usage examples of "impacts".

Gilbert of Columbia University, modeled the effects of impacts by flinging marbles into pans of oatmeal.

Earth might be subjected to devastating impacts from time to time was not quite as new as it is now sometimes presented.

So why, out of all the thousands of impacts Earth has endured, was the KT event so singularly devastating?

And soon the orniths could hear the footfalls of the mighty animals, tremendous, remote impacts that sounded like boulders tumbling down a hillside.

But the impacts happened even so, and to a creature with a lifespan of, say, ten million years, would not have seemed so improbable at all.

Slug impacts pounded prismatic dents across the transparis-teel windscreen.