Word: craterous
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...Journey to the Center of the Earth (from Jules Verne's novel) follows James Mason as he descends into an extinct volcano in Iceland, spends almost a year underground with such companions as Plucky Youth Pat Boone and Beautiful Widow Arlene Dahl, is coughed back up through the crater of Mount Stromboli. A grandly entertaining spoof...
...over which branch of the Armed Services would take responsibility for the rocket is over now, and, following a joint declaration by the White House staff, and several misfires, the huge thing has finally gone up. It will be directed through a previously planted tracking station somewhere between the Crater of Security Clearance and the Mountain of Dislocated Responsibility...
...Lunik II's instruments was a moon altimeter designed to measure its faster and faster approach to the lunar surface. Lunik II, the Russians say, landed on the edge of the Sea of Serenity, near the craters Aristillus, Archimedes and Autolycus. They think the last-stage rocket hit the moon too, but they do not know where. Since it was much heavier (3,325 Ibs.) than the instrumented payload (860 Ibs.), it must have splashed a considerably bigger crater...
...Lunik II undoubtedly blasted a crater, which Kuiper estimates as about 100 ft. in diameter with walls 10 ft. high. If such a crater happened to be in a smooth place, it should be detectable by a powerful telescope, under ideal conditions, as a faint bright spot. If the Lunik crater were inside a big crater or in a jumble of craters, it would probably not be visible...
...Crater. The Russians themselves do not claim to know precisely where the Lunik landed. Astronomers from the Ukraine's Kharkov Observatory, who watched and photographed the moon at the moment of impact from a high-flying airplane, think they saw 'a light effect" at the right instant. U.S. astronomers doubt it. Moon Expert Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that no flash of impact would have been visible against the moon's sunlit surface. He questions a Hungarian report of seeing a long-lasting dust cloud on the moon. Since the moon has virtually...