CRATER

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crater I. substantiv

1. crater (de vulcan).

2. pâlnie, groapă (de obuz).

3. (arheol.) crater (vas); urcior cu două urechi (din antichitate).

crater II. verb intranzitiv

a forma un crater.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

First, the team discovered that the rate of large crater formation on the Moon has been two to three times higher over approximately the last 290 million years than it had been over the previous 700 million years.

(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)

For decades, scientists have tried to understand the rate that asteroids hit the Earth by carefully studying impact craters on continents and by using radiometric dating of the rocks around them to determine the ages of the largest, and thus most intact, ones.

(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)

This idea explained why Earth has fewer older craters than expected compared to other bodies in the solar system, but it made it difficult to find an accurate impact rate and to determine whether it had changed over time.

(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)

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