Let Jules Verne crater on the moon be a new Point Nemo | Brief letters

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Let Jules Verne crater on the moon be a new Point Nemo | Brief letters

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I do hope countries agree to use the Jules Verne crater on the far side of the moon as a spacecraft graveyard to crash defunct equipment as they use Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean as a spacecraft cemetery (Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers, 22 December).
Kartar Uppal
Streetly, West Midlands

• In the 1980s, at the time of the nuclear incident in Ukraine, I was driving to the Suffolk coast, passing through Leiston, the nearest town to the Sizewell power station, upon whose town sign some wag had scrawled “Twinned with Chernobyl” (Letters, 26 December).
Margaret Philip
Scole, Norfolk

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