Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras

Lat: 73.46°N, Long: 10.06°W, Diam: 50.99 km, Depth: 4.5 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%204 Rükl: 4], [/Stratigraphy Copernican]

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[#Anaxagoras Anaxagoras]

[#Anaxagoras-Images Images]

[#Anaxagoras-Maps Maps]

[#Anaxagoras-Description Description]

[#Anaxagoras-Description-Elger Elger]

[#Anaxagoras-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]

[#Anaxagoras-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Anaxagoras-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Anaxagoras-LROC Articles LROC Articles]

[#Anaxagoras-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Anaxagoras-Bibliography Bibliography]

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Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 3B4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description

Elger

([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) ANAXAGORAS.--A brilliant ring-plain of regular form, 32 miles in diameter, adjoining [/Goldschmidt Goldschmidt] on the W. It is a prominent centre of light streaks, some of which traverse the interior of [/Goldschmidt Goldschmidt]. On the north a peak rises to the height of 10,000 feet. There is a long ridge on the floor, running from W. to E.

Wikipedia

Anaxagoras

Additional Information

• IAU page: Anaxagoras
• Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
  • Westfall, 2000: 3.06 km
  • Cherrington, 1969: 2.71 km
• Measures on LRO QuickMap give max depth about 4.5 km

• Central peak height
  • [/Wood%2C%201971 Wood, 1971]: 1.0 km - tychocrater tychocrater Mar 17, 2008
• Measures on LRO QuickMap give max central peak height about 900 m
  • [/Sekiguchi%2C%201972 Sekiguchi, 1972]: 1 km - fatastronomer fatastronomer
• Included in [/ALPO%20list%20of%20bright%20ray%20craters ALPO list of bright ray craters].
• West rim slope 38°, east rim slope 40° ([/Pohn%2C%201963 Pohn, 1963])
• Exterior impact melt deposits most extensive to ESE, max of ~15 km beyond rim. Most extensive ejecta, rays and secondary craters to the ESE, with max wall slumping on NNW side of crater, and topographically lowest rim crest to E ([/Hawke%20and%20Head%2C%201977 Hawke and Head, 1977]).
• TSI = 25, CPI = 20, FI = 20; MI =65 [/Smith%20and%20Sanchez%2C%201973 Smith and Sanchez, 1973]
• Within highlands, more than 98% anorthosite in central peak, and 0.2 to 0.6 Maturity Index (not mature) [/Ohtake%20and%20others%2C%202009 Ohtake and others, 2009]
• NASA has selected a small area near the central peak as a [/RoI%20-%20Anaxagoras%20Crater Region of Interest] for investigation in connection with its [/Constellation%20program Constellation program] of exploration.
• LOLA, altimetric (false-color) view showing two successive sets of profiles of the floor region.

Nomenclature

• Named for Anaxagoras (ca. 500 BC–428 BC), a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and astronomer. He brought philosophy and the spirit of scientific inquiry from Ionia to Athens. His observations of the celestial bodies and the fall of meteorites led him to form new theories of the universal order. He attempted to give a scientific account of eclipses, meteors, rainbows and the sun.

LROC Articles

(the amount of Anaxagoras-related LROC articles seems to be not quite small, a list of them is about to be compiled - DannyCaes DannyCaes Mar 28, 2016)
 

• Impact Melt in Anaxagoras Crater
• Exposed Fractured Bedrock in the Central Peak of Anaxagoras Crater

LPOD Articles

• Over the Pole
• North Polar Rays
• Was Anaxagoras an Oblique Impact Page One of a New Book
• Interesting Big Stuff (LRO's Close Up)

Bibliography

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