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Discover LudwigThe word 'crater' is correct and commonly used in written English
It is a noun that refers to a large, bowl-shaped depression in the ground or on the surface of a planet or moon, typically caused by an impact of a meteorite or other celestial body. Example: The astronauts marveled at the size and depth of the crater on the moon's surface, created by a massive meteor impact millions of years ago.
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Crater
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A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
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But a video shot at the checkpoint shows what are likely Grad rockets striking near the road more than a dozen times, then pans to the damaged bus stopped next to a black crater in the snow, suggesting a separatist rocket attack was responsible for the carnage.
A physicist at Fermilab in Chicago has calculated that an apple fired at such velocity would, if it hit the moon, excavate a crater six miles in diameter.
Santorini's volcanic crater, the caldera, is one of the Greek islands' iconic views, and it is a 10-minute walk from this quiet hotel.
A blog I began a few years ago – a stunningly successful experiment in national secrecy located several thousand miles up a winding gorge in the outer reaches of the internet – had, like most blogs, all the virtual footfall of a moon crater in low season.
These days, it still smoulders, occasionally glowing red around its crater, to provide a sad reminder of how exposed the islands remain to natural disaster.
The asteroid, which had a diameter of about six miles struck the Yucatan peninsula and left a crater, now known as the Chicxulub, measuring 12 miles deep by 124 miles wide.
They redated a hole that straddles the border of the states of Mato Grosso and Goiás in Brazil, called the Araguainha crater, to 254.7m years, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5m years.
Any hydrocarbons in the crater would certainly have been vaporised.
Even now, there are those who think the formation of the Chicxulub crater was a coincidence, and that what did for the dinosaurs was actually the volcanoes, so Dr Tohver will have to work hard to convince the sceptics.
A shell hit a neighbouring stairwell, shattering her windows and punching a crater in the middle of her apartment block.
Since then, roughly 8,000 of Montserrat's 11,500 residents have fled; the red-hot rocks, ash and gas spewing from the crater have killed another 19.
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