Rimae Prinz

Rimae Prinz (with Rima Beethoven, Rima Handel, and Rima Telemann)

Lat: 27.32°N, Long: 43.54°W, Length: 65 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2019 Rükl: 19]

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[#Rimae Prinz (with Rima Beethoven//, //Rima Handel//, and //Rima Telemann)-LROC Articles LROC Articles]

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[#Rimae Prinz (with Rima Beethoven//, //Rima Handel//, and //Rima Telemann)-Bibliography Bibliography]

Apollo 15 image AS15-M-2195 The north rim of 46-km [/Prinz Prinz] is in the lower left with 4-km [/Krieger Krieger] C along the margin at left center. The small, possibly volcanic, craters [/Vera Vera] and [/Ivan Ivan] are also visible. The elongated peak in the center was apparently once regarded as part of [/Montes%20Harbinger Montes Harbinger], with the northern part being named Harbinger Mu. The IAU’s Rimae Prinz includes the four large rilles around this peak, and probably the one starting in the [/Prinz lower right]. The thinner rille in the extreme upper left is an extension of the the neighboring [/Rimae%20Aristarchus Rimae Aristarchus].

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

• LRO WAC mosaic
• AS15-93-12608, an orbital Hasselblad of Prinz and Rimae Prinz, was included on pages 258-259 of the splendid article TO THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON by Kenneth F. Weaver (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, february 1972).

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 39A3) LAC map Geologic map LM map LTO map

Description

Wikipedia

Rimae Prinz

Additional Information

• IAU page: Rimae Prinz
• Raffaello Lena describes the Prinz Rille system in detail, working from and comparing measurements made using personal photographs and Apollo images in Selenology: Journal Of The American Lunar Society, Vol. 27, 2 Summer 2008.
• A possible lava tube near the Prinz Rilles was designated a Constellation Program [/RoI%20-%20Rimae%20Prinz Region of Interest].

Nomenclature

• Named from nearby crater. ([/Prinz Prinz])
• Numbers 63, 65, 66, 67, and 70 in Debra Hurwitz's Atlas and Catalog of Sinuous Rilles.
• Long noted by Earth-based observers, in the original IAU nomenclature of [/Blagg%20and%20M%C3%BCller Blagg and Müller] the rilles to the west of the elongated peak were known as Harbinger Ir (the westernmost one, emanating from [/Vera Vera]) and Harbinger IIr (the one to its east, starting near [/Ivan Ivan] and winding to the immediate west of the elongated peak).
• In the [/System%20of%20Lunar%20Craters System of Lunar Craters] the two classic rilles were renamed Rima Prinz I and Rima Prinz II, and they appear with that designation on LAC-39 (November, 1963). When the updated LM-39 appeared in November, 1979, the Roman numerals had been dropped and Prinz I was renamed Rima Prinz, with the remaining rilles left unnamed. This is apparently because on LTO-39A3, Rima Prinz II had been provisionally renamed Rima Beethoven (a name which was not accepted by the IAU. Lunar trivia: the rille with the slot was provisionally named Rima Handel and the one to its east Rima Telemann. The provisional names proposed on the LTO were used in print in the 1977 article by Strain and El-Baz (see References).
• In accordance with the [/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB 1973] directive to assign “new and more appropriate designations” to the formerly Roman-lettered rilles, the IAU seems to have at some point adopted the current plural name Rimae Prinz. But there is no record of this change in the [/IAU%20Transactions IAU Transactions], so it is unclear if the plural was intended to encompass just the two “classically” named rilles, or a wider group.
• The on-line [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer IAU Planetary Gazetteer] gives an adoption date of 1964 for the present name, but that does not seem correct since these rilles had singular names with the Roman numeral designations in 1964. The center position (of unknown origin) given in the Gazetteer (and quoted in the title line above) is between the four major rilles, and, as indicated in the figure caption, the diameter given is large enough to encompass them all, plus possibly some rilles to the south. - JimMosher JimMosher Oct 24, 2007

LROC Articles

• Rilles As Far As the Eye Can See in Prinz
• Rimae Prinz Region – Region of Interest

LPOD Articles

Lunar Rivers Musical Nomenclature Aperture

Lunar 100

[/Lunar%20100 L86]: Rille system near the crater [/Prinz Prinz].

Bibliography

• [/NASA%20SP-362 Apollo Over the Moon], Chapter 2: Regional views, Figure 30. Chapter 6: Rimae (Part 1: Sinuous Rimae), Figures 191, 192, 193, and 194.
• Hill, Harold. [/A%20Portfolio%20of%20Lunar%20Drawings A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings], pages 76, 77.
• Strain, P. L. and El-Baz, F. 1977. Topography of sinuous rilles in the Harbinger Mountains region of the moon, The Moon, vol. 16, Mar. 1977, p. 221-229.
• Wood, C.A. Sep. 2004. Lava Rivers on the Moon. Sky and Telescope 9/2004:76

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