1916 ‘B. Cable’ 95 No ping and smack of impacting lead hailed about them.
1961 Nov. 58/2 The impacting bodies may have been asteroids or comets.
1972 17 Apr. 6/8 These particles..cannot be measured or analysed from the Earth's surface. On the Moon, however, the impacting particles leave trails in the detector.
1973 13 July 68/2 Craters of the size of St Magnus Bay and The Firth would be formed by impacting meteorites of masses about 1 million tons.