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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Peirescius LPOD Photo Gallery images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Peirescius%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Peirescius Apollo Images]<br /> <br /> | [http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Peirescius LPOD Photo Gallery images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Peirescius%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Peirescius Apollo Images]<br /> <br /> | ||
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− | * Named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Claude_Fabri_de_Peiresc Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc] (1580-1637), a French astronomer, archaeologist. Along with [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Gassendi Gassendi], Peiresc commissioned one of the first and best systematic [http://www.pacifier.com/~tpope/Mellan_Moon_Engraving.htm series of drawings]of the Moon, with Claude Mellan as the artist. Its primary purpose was to facilitate the accurate timing of the passage of the Earth's shadow over the Moon's features during a lunar eclipse. Unfortunately he died before the project could be brought to completion. <span class="membersnap">- | + | * Named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Claude_Fabri_de_Peiresc Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc] (1580-1637), a French astronomer, archaeologist. Along with [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Gassendi Gassendi], Peiresc commissioned one of the first and best systematic [http://www.pacifier.com/~tpope/Mellan_Moon_Engraving.htm series of drawings]of the Moon, with Claude Mellan as the artist. Its primary purpose was to facilitate the accurate timing of the passage of the Earth's shadow over the Moon's features during a lunar eclipse. Unfortunately he died before the project could be brought to completion. <span class="membersnap">- Jim Mosher</span> |
** [http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/object/ClaudeMellanPierreGassendiThreeMapsOfTheMoon.html Prints] of the Mellan engravings were displayed in an exhibit in Florence celebrating 400 years of the telescope. | ** [http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/object/ClaudeMellanPierreGassendiThreeMapsOfTheMoon.html Prints] of the Mellan engravings were displayed in an exhibit in Florence celebrating 400 years of the telescope. | ||
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[http://the-moon.us/wiki/Alphabetical%20Index Named Featues] -- Prev: [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Peirce Peirce] -- Next: [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Mons%20Penck Mons Penck]<br /> | [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Alphabetical%20Index Named Featues] -- Prev: [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Peirce Peirce] -- Next: [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Mons%20Penck Mons Penck]<br /> | ||
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Revision as of 17:42, 15 April 2018
Contents
Peirescius
Lat: 46.46°S, Long: 67.81°E, Diam: 61.53 km, Depth: 3.68 km, Rükl 69, pre-Nectarian |
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery images Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
(LAC zone 115D3)
Description
Wikipedia
Additional Information
- IAU page: Peirescius
- Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 3.68 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), a French astronomer, archaeologist. Along with Gassendi, Peiresc commissioned one of the first and best systematic series of drawingsof the Moon, with Claude Mellan as the artist. Its primary purpose was to facilitate the accurate timing of the passage of the Earth's shadow over the Moon's features during a lunar eclipse. Unfortunately he died before the project could be brought to completion. - Jim Mosher
- Prints of the Mellan engravings were displayed in an exhibit in Florence celebrating 400 years of the telescope.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Unusual brightness phenomena at Peirescius? See page 232 of Harold Hill's A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings (Cambridge, 1991).
Named Featues -- Prev: Peirce -- Next: Mons Penck