Word: fremlin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some non-Russian astronomers have accepted Dr. Kozyrev's observations, if not his theories. Professor Donald H. Menzel of Harvard thinks that Kozyrev certainly saw something happen on the moon, but it may have been merely a jet of gas breaking out of a crevice. Physicist J. H. Fremlin of the University of Birmingham, England theorized in this week's Nature that if the bottoms of lunar craters are deeply covered with dust, as many astronomers think, they are likely places for gas eruptions. The dust layer, says Fremlin, would be a good heat insulator. It would trap...