Reply to post: Re: The bow wave effect?

Soil and sand harden as SPEEDING MISSILES and METEORS SLAM into GROUND – boffins

Monday 13th April 2015 03:47 GMT Martin Budden

Re: The bow wave effect?

Seems to me like a sonic boom type thing (which might be what you were getting at). If the projectile is travelling faster than the speed of sound in dirt it gets a fairly solid shock.

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