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Lat: 1.3°N, Long: 87.5°E, Main ring diam: 740 km, Basin depth: 5.0 km, [[R%C3%BCkl%2038|Rükl: 38]]<br />
 
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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Mare%20Smythii LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Mare%20Smythii%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Mare%20Smythii Apollo Images]<br />  
 
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Mare%20Smythii LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Mare%20Smythii%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Mare%20Smythii Apollo Images]<br />  
 
* [http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/LIW/20080205.html Apollo 15 view]
 
* [http://apollo.sese.asu.edu/LIW/20080205.html Apollo 15 view]
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* At the start of [/Lunar%20Orbiter%201%20-%20catalog%20of%20photographed%20features Lunar Orbiter 1's photos] is an interesting series of orbital close ups of '''Mare Smythii'''. Research: Danny Caes.
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* At the start of [[Lunar%20Orbiter%201%20-%20catalog%20of%20photographed%20features|Lunar Orbiter 1's photos]] is an interesting series of orbital close ups of '''Mare Smythii'''. Research: Danny Caes.
 
* Orbital Apollo photographs of the bright star-shaped high albedo craterlet at '''Mare Smythii's''' northern rim:
 
* Orbital Apollo photographs of the bright star-shaped high albedo craterlet at '''Mare Smythii's''' northern rim:
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** Coordinates: 4° North/ 88° 55' East (see also LAC 63 (page 126) in the ''[/Clementine%20Atlas Clementine Atlas]'')
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** Coordinates: 4° North/ 88° 55' East (see also LAC 63 (page 126) in the ''[[Clementine%20Atlas|Clementine Atlas]]'')
 
** [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS10-33-4886 AS10-33-4886]
 
** [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS10-33-4886 AS10-33-4886]
 
** [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS10-34-5081 AS10-34-5081] (color photograph, the bright craterlet's location is near the frame's left margin)
 
** [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/frame/?AS10-34-5081 AS10-34-5081] (color photograph, the bright craterlet's location is near the frame's left margin)
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==Maps==
 
==Maps==
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''([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 63C3)'' [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LTO/lto63c3_1/ LTO map]<br /> <br />  
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''([[LAC%20zone|LAC zone]] 63C3)'' [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LTO/lto63c3_1/ LTO map]<br /> <br />  
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==[/Lunar%20Basins Basin Classification]==
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==[[Lunar%20Basins|Basin Classification]]==
 
  (description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) [http://www.lpod.org/cwm/DataStuff/Lunar%20Basins.htm Impact Basin Database])<br />  
 
  (description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) [http://www.lpod.org/cwm/DataStuff/Lunar%20Basins.htm Impact Basin Database])<br />  
 
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==Additional Information==
 
==Additional Information==
  
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* Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
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* Depth data from [[Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths|Kurt Fisher database]]
 
** Pike, 1976: 3.5 km
 
** Pike, 1976: 3.5 km
 
* Mare area of 51,950 km^2 according to measurements by [http://www.lpod.org/cwm/DataStuff/MareAreas.htm Jim Whitford-Stark].
 
* Mare area of 51,950 km^2 according to measurements by [http://www.lpod.org/cwm/DataStuff/MareAreas.htm Jim Whitford-Stark].
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* The IAU feature name honors [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Smyth William Henry Smyth] (January 21, 1788 – September 9, 1865), a British astronomer. In 1825 he retired from the Navy to establish a private observatory in Bedford, England, equipped with a 5.9-inch refractor telescope. He used this instrument to observe a variety of deep sky objects over the course of the 1830s, including double stars, star clusters and nebulae. His notes on 1,604 double stars and nebulae resulted in a two volume book which became a standard reference and a model for the many amateur observing guides that follwed. No astronomer had previously made as extensive a catalogue of dim objects such as this. Subsequent to its publication Smyth was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and served for two years as its President.
 
* The IAU feature name honors [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Smyth William Henry Smyth] (January 21, 1788 – September 9, 1865), a British astronomer. In 1825 he retired from the Navy to establish a private observatory in Bedford, England, equipped with a 5.9-inch refractor telescope. He used this instrument to observe a variety of deep sky objects over the course of the 1830s, including double stars, star clusters and nebulae. His notes on 1,604 double stars and nebulae resulted in a two volume book which became a standard reference and a model for the many amateur observing guides that follwed. No astronomer had previously made as extensive a catalogue of dim objects such as this. Subsequent to its publication Smyth was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and served for two years as its President.
 
* The impact basin is named after the mare.
 
* The impact basin is named after the mare.
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* The area containing the mare was originally named [/K%C3%A4stner Kästner] by [/Johann%20Schr%C3%B6ter Johann Schröter], but [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler] reportedly constrained that name to the crater that currently bears the name.
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* The area containing the mare was originally named [[K%C3%A4stner|Kästner]] by [[Johann%20Schr%C3%B6ter|Johann Schröter]], but [[Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler|Beer and Mädler]] reportedly constrained that name to the crater that currently bears the name.
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* British amateur [/Lee John Lee] recommended renaming Schröter's original feature '''Mare Smythii''' on pages 7-9 of the Notes Section of the ''Report'' of the 1863 Meeting of the [/British%20Association British Association]. This recommendation was adopted in [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison, 1876].
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* British amateur [[Lee|John Lee]] recommended renaming Schröter's original feature '''Mare Smythii''' on pages 7-9 of the Notes Section of the ''Report'' of the 1863 Meeting of the [[British%20Association|British Association]]. This recommendation was adopted in [[Neison%2C%201876|Neison, 1876]].
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** Lee notes that ''"the name of [/K%C3%A4stner Kästner] is but little known in this country, and is of mere local interest, while the name of "Smyth," as the Rev. T. W. Webb remarks, "is not merely of English but of universal celebrity." It is therefore proposed to retain the name "[/K%C3%A4stner Kästner]" for the smaller and more ancient formation, and to commemorate the rediscovery by designating the larger and more modern plain by the name of the gallant admiral who has contributed so largely, not only to the advancement of astronomy, but also to the pleasure of every practical astronomer, by the publication of his most interesting '[http://books.google.com/books?id=yXDvAAAAMAAJ (Celestial) Cycle].'"''
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** Lee notes that ''"the name of [[K%C3%A4stner|Kästner]] is but little known in this country, and is of mere local interest, while the name of "Smyth," as the Rev. T. W. Webb remarks, "is not merely of English but of universal celebrity." It is therefore proposed to retain the name "[[K%C3%A4stner|Kästner]]" for the smaller and more ancient formation, and to commemorate the rediscovery by designating the larger and more modern plain by the name of the gallant admiral who has contributed so largely, not only to the advancement of astronomy, but also to the pleasure of every practical astronomer, by the publication of his most interesting '[http://books.google.com/books?id=yXDvAAAAMAAJ (Celestial) Cycle].'"''
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** According to [/Ashbrook%2C%201984 Ashbrook, 1984] (page 52) Smyth was a personal friend of Lee, to whom he eventually sold his refractor. In the same ''British Association'' report where '''Mare Smythii''' is named, Lee named the crater [/Piazzi%20Smyth Piazzi Smyth] in honor of Smyth's son Charles.
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** According to [[Ashbrook%2C%201984|Ashbrook, 1984]] (page 52) Smyth was a personal friend of Lee, to whom he eventually sold his refractor. In the same ''British Association'' report where '''Mare Smythii''' is named, Lee named the crater [[Piazzi%20Smyth|Piazzi Smyth]] in honor of Smyth's son Charles.
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* The present feature was Catalog number 4779 (the very last entry) in Mary Blagg's ''[/Collated%20List Collated List]'', where it is said that Neison used this name, but [/Julius%20Schmidt Julius Schmidt] called it [/K%C3%A4stner Kästner] and [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler] did not use it.
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* The present feature was Catalog number 4779 (the very last entry) in Mary Blagg's ''[[Collated%20List|Collated List]]'', where it is said that Neison used this name, but [[Julius%20Schmidt|Julius Schmidt]] called it [[K%C3%A4stner|Kästner]] and [[Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler|Beer and Mädler]] did not use it.
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* In ''[/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations]'' the naming of Catalog number 4779 as '''Mare Smythii''' is erroneously attributed to Mädler (the name is not used in that book).
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* In ''[[Named%20Lunar%20Formations|Named Lunar Formations]]'' the naming of Catalog number 4779 as '''Mare Smythii''' is erroneously attributed to Mädler (the name is not used in that book).
 
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* Primary named formations on the dark floor of '''Mare Smythii''' (the bold''/Italics'' names (non-IAU) are those which were printed on the Lunar Topographic Ortophotomaps)
 
* Primary named formations on the dark floor of '''Mare Smythii''' (the bold''/Italics'' names (non-IAU) are those which were printed on the Lunar Topographic Ortophotomaps)
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** [/Avery Avery]
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** [[Avery|Avery]]
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** '''''Camoens''''' (SSE of [/Schubert Schubert] '''C''')
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** '''''Camoens''''' (SSE of [[Schubert|Schubert]] '''C''')
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** [/Dorsa%20Dana Dorsa Dana]
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** [[Dorsa%20Dana|Dorsa Dana]]
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** [/Dorsum%20Cloos Dorsum Cloos]
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** [[Dorsum%20Cloos|Dorsum Cloos]]
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** [/Haldane Haldane]
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** [[Haldane|Haldane]]
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** [/Helmert Helmert]
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** [[Helmert|Helmert]]
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** [/Hume Hume]
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** [[Hume|Hume]]
 
** [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Hume Hume] '''Z''' ('''''Li Po''''')
 
** [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Hume Hume] '''Z''' ('''''Li Po''''')
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** [/Kao Kao]
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** [[Kao|Kao]]
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** [/Kiess Kiess] (together with nearby '''Widmannstatten''' these were the '''''Wright Brothers''''' during the heydays of the Apollo program).
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** [[Kiess|Kiess]] (together with nearby '''Widmannstatten''' these were the '''''Wright Brothers''''' during the heydays of the Apollo program).
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** [/Lebesgue Lebesgue]
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** [[Lebesgue|Lebesgue]]
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** [/Peek Peek]
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** [[Peek|Peek]]
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** '''''Pirandello''''' (east of [/Peek Peek])
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** '''''Pirandello''''' (east of [[Peek|Peek]])
 
** [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Purkyne Purkyne] '''S''' ('''''Milton''''')
 
** [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Purkyne Purkyne] '''S''' ('''''Milton''''')
 
** [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Purkyne Purkyne] '''U''' ('''''Tasso''''')
 
** [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Purkyne Purkyne] '''U''' ('''''Tasso''''')
 
** [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Purkyne Purkyne] '''V''' ('''''Hugo''''')
 
** [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Purkyne Purkyne] '''V''' ('''''Hugo''''')
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** [/Runge Runge]
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** [[Runge|Runge]]
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** [/Schubert Schubert] '''C''' ('''''Doyle''''')
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** [[Schubert|Schubert]] '''C''' ('''''Doyle''''')
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** [/Slocum Slocum]
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** [[Slocum|Slocum]]
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** [/Swasey Swasey]
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** [[Swasey|Swasey]]
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** [/Talbot Talbot]
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** [[Talbot|Talbot]]
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** [/Tucker Tucker]
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** [[Tucker|Tucker]]
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** [/Warner Warner]
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** [[Warner|Warner]]
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** [/Widmannst%C3%A4tten Widmannstatten] (together with nearby '''Kiess''' these were the '''''Wright Brothers''''' during the heydays of the Apollo program).
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** [[Widmannst%C3%A4tten|Widmannstatten]] (together with nearby '''Kiess''' these were the '''''Wright Brothers''''' during the heydays of the Apollo program).
 
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==LPOD Articles==
 
==LPOD Articles==
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[http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/February_17,_2005 Keeping Up With The Smythiis]<br /> [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/January_13,_2007 Deep, Young and Ashy]<br /> [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/November_10,_2007 New Perspective, Old Image]<br /> [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/December_6,_2006 A Young, Deep Mare]<br /> [/LPOD%20Feb%2025%2C%202008 Out on a limb]<br /> [http://lpod.wikispaces.com/November%203%2C%202008 What's New?]<br /> <br />  
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[http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/February_17,_2005 Keeping Up With The Smythiis]<br /> [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/January_13,_2007 Deep, Young and Ashy]<br /> [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/November_10,_2007 New Perspective, Old Image]<br /> [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/December_6,_2006 A Young, Deep Mare]<br /> [[LPOD%20Feb%2025%2C%202008|Out on a limb]]<br /> [http://lpod.wikispaces.com/November%203%2C%202008 What's New?]<br /> <br />  
 
==APOD articles==
 
==APOD articles==
 
[http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080810.html The Eagle Rises] (Anaglyph of Apollo 11's LM -''Eagle''- (Ascent Stage) and '''Mare Smythii''')<br /> <br />  
 
[http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080810.html The Eagle Rises] (Anaglyph of Apollo 11's LM -''Eagle''- (Ascent Stage) and '''Mare Smythii''')<br /> <br />  
 
==Lunar 100==
 
==Lunar 100==
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[/Lunar%20100 L73]: Difficult-to-observe basin scarp & mare.<br /> <br />  
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[[Lunar%20100|L73]]: Difficult-to-observe basin scarp & mare.<br /> <br />  
 
==Bibliography==
 
==Bibliography==
  
 
* APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-362/ch2.htm Chapter 2: Regional views], Figure 22.
 
* APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-362/ch2.htm Chapter 2: Regional views], Figure 22.
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* Hill, Harold. [/A%20Portfolio%20of%20Lunar%20Drawings A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings], pages 34-36.
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* Hill, Harold. [[A%20Portfolio%20of%20Lunar%20Drawings|A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings]], pages 34-36.
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* [/Lee Lee], J. 1864. "On the Lunar "Mare Smythii," the walled Plain "Rosse," the "Percy Mountains," and the newly named Craters, "Phillips," "Wrottesley," "Chevallier," and "Piazzi Smyth." ''Report of the [/British%20Association British Association] for the Advancement of Science'' [http://www.archive.org/details/reportofbritisha64brit 1863 Meeting]. Notices Section (at end), pp. 7-9 (the name is also used in on p. 4, in an earlier article by W. R. [/Birt Birt]).
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* [[Lee|Lee]], J. 1864. "On the Lunar "Mare Smythii," the walled Plain "Rosse," the "Percy Mountains," and the newly named Craters, "Phillips," "Wrottesley," "Chevallier," and "Piazzi Smyth." ''Report of the [[British%20Association|British Association]] for the Advancement of Science'' [http://www.archive.org/details/reportofbritisha64brit 1863 Meeting]. Notices Section (at end), pp. 7-9 (the name is also used in on p. 4, in an earlier article by W. R. [[Birt|Birt]]).
 
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Smythii Basin

(unofficial name; IAU name for central 373 km of mare: Mare Smythii)

Lat: 1.3°N, Long: 87.5°E, Main ring diam: 740 km, Basin depth: 5.0 km, Rükl: 38

external image normal_MSmythiiA051210.jpg

external image normal_Smythii_Basin_LIDAR_LTVT.JPG

Left: Peter Lloyd Mare Smythii is the feature seen foreshortened at the limb, Right: Clementine, Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from PDS Map-a-Planet remapped to north-up aerial view by LTVT. The dot is the center position and the white circle the main ring position from Chuck Wood's Impact Basin Database. Grid spacing = 10°.

Table of Contents

[#Smythii Basin Smythii Basin]
[#Smythii Basin-Images Images]
[#Smythii Basin-Maps Maps]
[#Smythii Basin-Basin Classification Basin Classification]
[#Smythii Basin-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Smythii Basin-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Smythii Basin-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Smythii Basin-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Smythii Basin-APOD articles APOD articles]
[#Smythii Basin-Lunar 100 Lunar 100]
[#Smythii Basin-Bibliography Bibliography]

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images


Maps

(LAC zone 63C3) LTO map

Basin Classification

(description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) Impact Basin Database)
Certainty of Existence
 USGS Age
 Wilhelms Age Group
 Ring Diameters
 Mare Thickness
 Mascon
Probable
 Pre=Nectarian
 5
 260, 370, 540, 740, 1130 km
 1.2-1.3 km
 Yes; +43 mG gravity anomaly


Description: Wikipedia

Mare Smythii

Additional Information


Nomenclature

  • The IAU feature name honors William Henry Smyth (January 21, 1788 – September 9, 1865), a British astronomer. In 1825 he retired from the Navy to establish a private observatory in Bedford, England, equipped with a 5.9-inch refractor telescope. He used this instrument to observe a variety of deep sky objects over the course of the 1830s, including double stars, star clusters and nebulae. His notes on 1,604 double stars and nebulae resulted in a two volume book which became a standard reference and a model for the many amateur observing guides that follwed. No astronomer had previously made as extensive a catalogue of dim objects such as this. Subsequent to its publication Smyth was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and served for two years as its President.
  • The impact basin is named after the mare.
  • The area containing the mare was originally named Kästner by Johann Schröter, but Beer and Mädler reportedly constrained that name to the crater that currently bears the name.
  • British amateur John Lee recommended renaming Schröter's original feature Mare Smythii on pages 7-9 of the Notes Section of the Report of the 1863 Meeting of the British Association. This recommendation was adopted in Neison, 1876.
    • Lee notes that "the name of Kästner is but little known in this country, and is of mere local interest, while the name of "Smyth," as the Rev. T. W. Webb remarks, "is not merely of English but of universal celebrity." It is therefore proposed to retain the name "Kästner" for the smaller and more ancient formation, and to commemorate the rediscovery by designating the larger and more modern plain by the name of the gallant admiral who has contributed so largely, not only to the advancement of astronomy, but also to the pleasure of every practical astronomer, by the publication of his most interesting '(Celestial) Cycle.'"
    • According to Ashbrook, 1984 (page 52) Smyth was a personal friend of Lee, to whom he eventually sold his refractor. In the same British Association report where Mare Smythii is named, Lee named the crater Piazzi Smyth in honor of Smyth's son Charles.
  • The present feature was Catalog number 4779 (the very last entry) in Mary Blagg's Collated List, where it is said that Neison used this name, but Julius Schmidt called it Kästner and Beer and Mädler did not use it.
  • In Named Lunar Formations the naming of Catalog number 4779 as Mare Smythii is erroneously attributed to Mädler (the name is not used in that book).



LPOD Articles

Keeping Up With The Smythiis
Deep, Young and Ashy
New Perspective, Old Image
A Young, Deep Mare
Out on a limb
What's New?

APOD articles

The Eagle Rises (Anaglyph of Apollo 11's LM -Eagle- (Ascent Stage) and Mare Smythii)

Lunar 100

L73: Difficult-to-observe basin scarp & mare.

Bibliography

  • APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, Chapter 2: Regional views, Figure 22.
  • Hill, Harold. A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings, pages 34-36.
  • Lee, J. 1864. "On the Lunar "Mare Smythii," the walled Plain "Rosse," the "Percy Mountains," and the newly named Craters, "Phillips," "Wrottesley," "Chevallier," and "Piazzi Smyth." Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1863 Meeting. Notices Section (at end), pp. 7-9 (the name is also used in on p. 4, in an earlier article by W. R. Birt).



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