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=Buys-Ballot, immediately north-northwest of Lacus Luxuriae=
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[[Image:buys-bal.jpg|buys-bal.jpg]]<br />
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'''Left:''' ''[http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/ LROC]'' view ('''Buys-Ballot''' is the odd-looking crater at bottom in image, while the top crater is '''Buys-Ballot Z''').<br /> '''Right:''' ''Clementine UV-VIS Multispectral Mosaic'': Mercator projection dynamically created by USGS lunar [http://www.mapaplanet.org/explorer/help/wmsUserDoc.html Web Map Service]. Click [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/AdvanceSearch2.jsp?body=Moon&ft=ALL&nlat=22.5&slat=19.1&wlon=172.6&elon=176.4&lonDirection=EAST&as=ANY&sort=AName&ShowType=Yes&ShowDiam=Yes&ShowLat=Yes&ShowLon=Yes&ShowAD=Yes here] for a USGS-generated list of all [[IAU|IAU]]-named features with centers in the current field.<br />  The dark presence south-southeast of '''Buys-Ballot''' is '''Lacus Luxuriae'''.<br /> <br /> 
==Images==
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Buys-Ballot LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Buys-Ballot%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Buys-Ballot Apollo Images]<br /> <br /> 
==Maps==
''([[LAC%20zone|LAC zone]] 50D1)'' [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/Lunar/lac_50.pdf USGS Digital Atlas PDF]<br /> <br /> 
==Description==
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===Wikipedia===
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buys-Ballot_(crater) Buys-Ballot]<br /> <br /> 
==Additional Information==
* IAU page: [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/939 Buys-Ballot]
* [[Oblique%20Impact%20Craters|Oblique impact]] - see [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/September_4,_2006 LPOD].
* [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Flyovers%20-%20An%20Introduction Flyovers – An Introduction]
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==Nomenclature==

* Named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.D._Buys_Ballot Christoph Hendrik Diederik Buys-Ballot] (1817-1890), a Dutch meteorologist.
* '''Buys-Ballot''' was in the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in [[Menzel%2C%201971#Buys-Ballot|Menzel, 1971]].
* '''Buys-Ballot''''s location is immediately north of one of the few officially named lakes on the moon's far side''':''' '''Lacus Luxuriae'''. The other two officially named farside lakes are '''Lacus Oblivionis''' and '''Lacus Solitudinis'''.
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==LPOD Articles==

* [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/September_4,_2006 Another Schiller]
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==Bibliography==

* Morota, T. ''et al'' (2011). [http://www.terrapub.co.jp/journals/EPS/pdf/free/2011/63010005.pdf Timing and Duration of Mare Volcanism in the Central Region of the Northern Farside of the Moon] - Earth Planets Space, 63, 5–13, 2011
* Schultz, P. H. ''et al'' (1998). [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/LPSC98/pdf/1863.pdf The Possible Generation of Friction Melts at the Lunar Crater, Buys-Ballot] – 29th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 1998.
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