crater

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Sharp, who worked at the Greenwich Royal Observatory and has a crater on the moon named after him, was also a mathematician who calculated pi to 72 decimal places.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

Odysseus touched down in the Malapert A crater, some 300 kilometers from the moon’s south pole, becoming the first commercial lander to touch down on the moon.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

The issue is that returns could end up dispersed, meaning one stock could crater and another could rebound spectacularly.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Your life won’t crater because you can’t stop playing the piano, practicing tennis serves, drilling irregular French verbs or reading another page of “Plutarch’s Lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026

The third landslide Two minutes after the earthquake, a third landslide collapsed the summit of Mount St. Helens into its crater.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone