Old Nameless

Old Nameless (Apollo 14 site craterlet name)

Lat: 3.7°S, Long: 17.5°W, Diam: 0.75 km, Depth: 0.085 km, Rükl: 42

LO-III-133H The other labels are IAU-named features visited by the Apollo 14 astronauts, whose Lunar Module landed between the Triplet and Doublet craters.

Images

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• Old Nameless is reportedly on the horizon in Hasselblad photo AS14-64-9152 (taken by the Apollo 14 astronauts from about 2.5 km away on the lunar surface).
• It can be seen even more clearly in the detail from the similar AS14-68-9425 reproduced in Figure 11 (p. 15) of Geological Survey Professional Paper 880.

Exploring Old Nameless
A list of Apollo 14's Hasselblad photographs on which Old Nameless was captured:
Color Hasselblads'':
- AS14-66-9286 LPI's low res, Kipp Teague's med res and high res. Pretty sharp look at shadowed Old Nameless.
- AS14-66-9308 LPI's low res, Kipp Teague's med res and high res. Pretty sharp look at shadowed Old Nameless. Solar Wind Experiment in foreground.
B&W Hasselblads'':
- AS14-64-9117 LPI's low res, Kipp Teague's med res and high res. Pretty sharp look at Old Nameless (partially obscured by nearby horizon).
- AS14-64-9130 LPI's low res, Kipp Teague's med res. Old Nameless is out of focus, near the frame's upper margin.
- AS14-64-9131 LPI's low res, Kipp Teague's med res. Old Nameless is out of focus, near the frame's upper left corner.
- AS14-64-9152 LPI's low res, Kipp Teague's med res. Old Nameless is out of focus.
- AS14-68-9425 LPI's low res, Kipp Teague's med res and high res. Pretty sharp look at Old Nameless.
- AS14-68-9440 LPI's low res, Kipp Teague's med res and high res. Quite sharp look at Old Nameless, although the camera was moving a little bit.
- AS14-68-9486 LPI's low res, Kipp Teague's med res and high res. Quite sharp look at Old Nameless, with LM Antares and CDR Alan Shepard about "halfway".
- AS14-68-9487 LPI's low res, Kipp Teague's med res and high res. Almost the same view as in frame 9486, camera moved a little bit.
Research Apollo 14 photography: Danny Caes

Maps

(LAC zone 76B1) LAC map Geologic map LM map AIC map

Description

APOLLO LUNAR SURFACE JOURNAL (ALSJ) page Old Nameless (Eric M. Jones)
 
 

Description Wikipedia

(no Wikipedia page for Apollo 14's Old Nameless).
 
 

Additional Information

• Based on LTVT measurements of Lunar Orbiter image LO-III-133M, Old Nameless is 750 m in diam (not counting the extension to the north), and ~85 m deep.
• I wonder if it is possible to make telescopic Hi-Res webcam images of Old Nameless, shortly after local sunrise, or shortly before local sunset.- DannyCaes Dec 29, 2010

Nomenclature

Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 14 site.
 

• The IAU Planetary Gazetteer gives LAC 76 as the primary map reference for this name, but it does not appear on that map, nor is it labeled on any of the readily available maps (there is no LTO or Topophotomap of the Apollo 14 area, and Old Nameless is too far south to show in the Apollo 14 Site Traverses Chart. The present identification is based on Figure 7 (p. 11) of Geological Survey Professional Paper 880. It is also based on descriptions of it as being 1 km in diameter and about 2.5 km south of the Apollo 14 sampling sites on the flank of Cone crater. IAU Transactions XVIB describes Old Nameless only as a "crater with broken rim." The official IAU diameter is "O km" (a common designation for landing site names).
• Old Nameless should not to be confused with Apollo 15's Nameless, which is a small craterlet on The Plain near Rima Hadley.- DannyCaes Dec 26, 2010

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

Alice J. Hall: APOLLO 14, the climb up Cone crater (National Geographic, July 1971).
  David M. Harland: EXPLORING THE MOON, the Apollo expeditions.
  Eric M. Jones: APOLLO LUNAR SURFACE JOURNAL (ALSJ).

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