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High‐speed impact ejecta at velocities comparable to the impact velocity are expected to contribute to material transport between planetary bodies and deposition of ejecta far from the impact crater. We investigated the behavior of high‐speed ejecta produced at angles of 45° and 90°, using both experimental and numerical methods. The experimental system developed at the Planetary Exploration Research Center of Chiba Institute of Technology (Japan) allowed us to observe the initial growth of the ejecta. We succeeded in imaging high‐speed ejecta at 0.2 μs intervals for impacts of polycarbonate projectiles of 4.8 mm diameter onto a polycarbonate plate at an impact velocity of ~4 km s −1 . Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations of various numerical resolutions were conducted for the same impact conditions as pertaining to the experiments. We compared the morphology and velocities of the ejecta for the experiments and simulations, and we confirmed a close match for high‐resolution simulations (with  ≥ 10 6  SPH particles representing the projectile). According to the ejecta velocity distributions obtained from our high‐resolution simulations, the ejection velocities of the high‐speed ejecta for oblique impacts are much greater than those for vertical impacts. The translational motion of penetrating projectiles parallel to the target surface in oblique impacts could cause long‐term, sustained acceleration at the root of the ejecta.

Impact Ejecta Near the Impact Point Observed Using Ultra‐high‐Speed Imaging and SPH Simulations and a Comparison of the Two Methods