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When the Henbury projectile entered Earth’s atmosphere its internal structure was already weakened through fractures, cracks and shear planes obtained in the initial breakup event which disrupted the IIIAB parent body. When the accumulating atmospheric drag tore the Henbury meteoroid apart, it disintegrated into numerous fragments along these planes.
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Buhl, S., McColl, D. (2015). FRAGMENTATION ON IMPACT. In: Henbury Craters and Meteorites. GeoGuide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03955-8_10
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