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Revision as of 19:35, 11 April 2018
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Zucchius
Lat: 61.4°S, Long: 50.3°W, Diam: 64 km, Depth: 3.82 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2071 Rükl: 71], [/Stratigraphy Copernican] |
Table of Contents
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 124C3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) ZUCHIUS.--Is situated on the S.W. of [/Segner Segner], which it slightly overlaps. It is very similar in size and general character, and has a lofty terraced wall, rising at one place on the E. to nearly 11,000 feet above the floor. A very fine chain of craters, well seen when the opposite border is on the morning terminator, runs round the outer E. slope of the wall. There is a bright crater beyond this on the S.E. Zuchius has a central peak.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 3.82 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 3.3 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 3.2 km
- [/Central%20peak%20composition Central peak composition]: GNTA1, GNTA2, AG, G ([/Tompkins%20%26%20Pieters%2C%201999 Tompkins & Pieters, 1999])
- Exterior impact melt deposits most extensive to N & E, max of ~8 km beyond rim; max wall slumping on N side of crater ([/Hawke%20and%20Head%2C%201977 Hawke and Head, 1977]).
- Included in [/ALPO%20list%20of%20bright%20ray%20craters ALPO list of bright ray craters]
- A small crater on the south rim crest ejected low albedo material that could be mare basalts from below (LPOD Oct 1, 2009)
Nomenclature
- Named for Niccolo Zucchi (December 6, 1586 - May 21, 1670), a Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician and physicist. In 1616, he designed one of the earliest reflecting telescopes. A professor at the Collegio Romano, Zucchi developed an interest in astronomy from a meeting with Johannes Kepler. He invented the concave reflecting telescope, and on May 17, 1630 was the first person to discover two belts on the surface of Jupiter. Zucchi also examined the spots on Mars (1640). His book Optica philosophia experimentalis et ratione a fundamentis constituta (1652–56) inspired James Gregory and Isaac Newton to build improved telescopes.
- According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 215), this was one of the original names from [/Riccioli Riccioli]'s map, where it was listed as Zucchius Soc. I (the "Soc. I" standing for "Society of Jesus" -- see the list of [/Nomenclature-Jesuits Jesuit astronomers]).
LPOD Articles
Four in a Row Western Triplet Chasing Cryptomaria
Bibliography
- Harold Hill. [/A%20Portfolio%20of%20Lunar%20Drawings A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings], pages 158, 159.
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