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  • The rovers would visit such landmarks as the Apollo 11 moonfall and the wreck of the Ranger 8 probe, and search for the remains of the Soviet Lunakhod-2 rover in LeMonnier crater.

    A Private Trip To The Moon? 2008

  • A dawn storm, grit and ice, obscured the base, but the humans made out that it was in the great crater, presumably because the moonfall had brought down valuable ores and caused more to spurt up from beneath.

    Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

  • FUNCTIONAL WORD (8) tetramine SHIFT (6) ambisextrous, magneto - decorative adj. fluid - diplotene, autodrome mechanic, adj. birdyback adj. dirty colorcaster neurokinin dustoff gravisphere parapolitical, punch-up moonfall adj. skim parakite protoconti -

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVI No 1 1989

  • NEW MEANINGS analyst gate mu-meson bob immune, adj. muonon, butter pat laggard suffix delocalize, v. lagger paging derrick, v. meson plasma digger microelectrode poach, v. fat receptor reduplicate, gravisphere ductibility v. moonfall electrohydraulic spinner parakite standoff resistojet fluidonics station BLENDS (2) fluoridizer zone gayola incapacitator VARIANT FORM plench Mosleyite tabbouli BOUND-MORPHEME mysterium FUNCTIONAL ITEMS (7) oceanologic,

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1 1988

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