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Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.20 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A crater on Mars, located within the larger Airy Crater, used as the determining landmark for the Martian prime meridian.
Etymology
From Airy Crater, the larger crater this smaller crater is located within, and 0° of the prime meridian. Named after George Biddell Airy, a British astronomer who helped establish the Greenwich Meridian as the Prime Meridian on Earth.