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==LPOD Articles==
 
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Revision as of 19:31, 11 April 2018

Scoresby

Lat: 77.7°N, Long: 14.1°E, Diam: 55 km, Depth: 4.1 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%204 Rükl: 4], [/Stratigraphy Eratosthenian]

Table of Contents

[#Scoresby Scoresby]
[#Scoresby-Images Images]
[#Scoresby-Maps Maps]
[#Scoresby-Description Description]
[#Scoresby-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Scoresby-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Scoresby-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Scoresby-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Scoresby-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Scoresby-Bibliography Bibliography]
external image normal_Scoresby-Clementine.jpg
Clementine

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 4A1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Elger

([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) SCORESBY.--A much fore-shortened deep ring-plain, 36 miles in diameter, between [/Barrow Barrow] and the limb. It has a central mountain with two peaks, which are very difficult to detect.

Description: Wikipedia

Scoresby

Additional Information

  • Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
    • Westfall, 2000: 4.1 km
    • Viscardy, 1985: 2.4 km
    • Cherrington, 1969: 3.59 km
  • [/Central%20peak%20composition Central peak composition]: GNTA1 ([/Tompkins%20%26%20Pieters%2C%201999 Tompkins & Pieters, 1999])
  • Central peak height


Nomenclature

William Scoresby (5 October 1789 - 21 March 1857) was an English Arctic explorer, scientist and divine.

Scoresby A was called Sacco by Wilkins and Paluzie-Borrell, but the [/IAU IAU] did not accept that name.

  • Sacco was a contemporary Spanish astronomer.


LPOD Articles

Not Santa's Pole.
Over the Pole

Bibliography

  • Scoresby A (Sacco): [/Wilkins%20and%20Moore Wilkins and Moore].
  • By William Scoresby: -A Description of Some Appearances of Remarkable Rainbows- (Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1827), see Rare Halos, Mirages, Anomalous Rainbows, and related electromagnetic phenomena (William R. Corliss, The Sourcebook Project, 1984).



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