- Apparent crater depth
- Apparent crater diameter Da
- Ballistic Impact Ejecta
- Central peak
- Central-peak basin
- Central uplift
- Complex impact crater
- Diaplectic glass
- Distal impact ejecta
- Equation of state
- Excavation depth
- Final diameter
- Fragmental impact breccia
- Hugoniot curve
- Hugoniot elastic limit
- Hypervelocity impact
- Hypervelocity Impact Crater
- Impact breccia
- Impact crater
- Impact crater strewn field
- Impact Deposit
- Impact ejecta
- Impact ejecta blanket
- Impact glass
- Impact melt
- Impact melt-bearing breccia
- Impact melt breccia
- Impact melt rock
- Impact metamorphism
- Impact Pit
- Impact regolith
- Impact structure
- Impactite
- Impactoclastic air fall bed
- Impactoclastic deposit
- Lithic impact breccia
- Maskelynite
- Multi-ring basin
- Particulate impact melt rock
- Peak-ring basin
- Planar deformation features
- Planar fractures
- Planar microstructures
- Proximal impact ejecta
- Pseudotachylite
- Rim diameter
- Shock deformation
- Shock effects
- Shock melting
- Shock metamorphism
- Shock vaporization
- Shock wave
- Simple impact crater
- Structural uplift
- Suevite
- Tektite
- Transient cavity
- Transient cavity diameter
- True crater depth
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