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hypervelocity

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Noun1.hypervelocity - excessive velocity; "the meteorites struck the earth with hypervelocity impacts"
speed, velocity - distance travelled per unit time


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One of the successes I can point to, one of our most prized test assets in the Air Force, is the Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9.
Based on laboratory experiments, a Japanese team now reports that these hypervelocity impacts emit microwaves.
He used a hypervelocity gas gun, which fires projectiles (such as quarter-inch metallic spheres) at 4 miles per second at low angles toward ``targets resembling the Yucatan surface - literally dirt or carbonates.
 
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