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Timocharis

p near the top of the lunar disc, nestled in the curve of the rugged Montes Apenninus, is a small crater called Timocharis. It really doesn’t look like anything special; the Moon is spattered with countless tens of thousands of craters just like it, each one proof that our satellite has been absolutely pummelled and pulverised in its distant past by asteroids and comets that were left circling the Sun after it was born

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