Kuiper

Kuiper

(formerly [/Bonpland Bonpland] E)

Lat: 9.8°S, Long: 22.7°W, Diam: 6 km, Depth: 1.55 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2042 Rükl: 42]

Table of Contents

[#Kuiper Kuiper]

[#Kuiper-Images Images]

[#Kuiper-Maps Maps]

[#Kuiper-Description Description]

[#Kuiper-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]

[#Kuiper-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Kuiper-An unnamed crater south of Kuiper? An unnamed crater south of Kuiper?]

[#Kuiper-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Kuiper-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Kuiper-Bibliography Bibliography]

[#Kuiper-Gerard P. Kuiper in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss) Gerard P. Kuiper in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)]

LO-IV-125H The streak across the middle of the frame is a defect in the development of the [/Lunar%20Orbiter Lunar Orbiter] film.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images Although there seems to be nothing in the LPI's Apollo Image index which shows Kuiper or Bonpland E, this distinct bowl-shaped crater in Mare Cognitum was photographed during the mission of Apollo 16!- DannyCaes DannyCaes Apr 4, 2010
- Apollo 16's orbital ITEK Panoramic stereo-frames of Kuiper (Bonpland E):
AS16-P-5436 shows Kuiper a little bit beyond (to the right) of the frame's centre (scroll to the right).
AS16-P-5441 also shows Kuiper (scroll to the right, beyond the frame's centre).
WARNING: the LPI's so-called stereo companion of frame 5441 (frame 5346) shows a totally different part of the moon's surface!
- Research Apollo 16 orbital photography and detection of error at the LPI's so-called "stereo-pair": Danny Caes

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 76D2) LAC map Geologic map LM map LTO map
Lower right corner of Chart 22 (page 57) in the 21st Century Atlas of the Moon (C.A.Wood/ M.Collins).

Description

Description: Wikipedia

Kuiper

Additional Information

• Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
  Westfall, 2000: 1.55 km
  Viscardy, 1985: 1.33 km
• From the shadows in LO-IV-125H, Kuiper is 1360 m deep. - JimMosher JimMosher

An unnamed crater south of Kuiper?

There seems to be a circle-shaped formation (or rather: the remains of a circle-shaped formation) south of Kuiper. See SLC-map E5 (System of Lunar Craters, 1966). The WAC Nearside - Big Shadows version of the ACT-REACT Quick Map (LROC) shows just a more-or-less arc shaped system of wrinkle ridges... My investigating eyes can't detect a circle-shaped formation. - DannyCaes DannyCaes Feb 18, 2017
 
 

Nomenclature

• Named for Gerard Peter Kuiper (December 7, 1905 - December 23, 1973), a Dutch-American astronomer. He was blessed with an extraordinarily sharp eyesight, allowing him to see magnitude 7.5 stars with the naked eyes, about four times fainter than visible to normal eyes. Kuiper discovered two moons of planets in the solar system, namely Uranus's moon Miranda and Neptune's moon Nereid. In addition, he discovered carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mars and the existence of a methane-laced atmosphere above Saturn's moon Titan in 1944. Kuiper also pioneered airborne infrared observing using a Convair 990 aircraft in the 1960s. Kuiper spent most of his career at the University of Chicago, but moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1960 to found the [/Lunar%20%26%20Planetary%20Laboratory%20Catalog%20of%20Lunar%20Craters Lunar and Planetary Laboratory] at the University of Arizona. In the 1960s, Kuiper helped identify landing sites on the Moon for the Apollo program. The Kuiper belt, Asteroid 1776 Kuiper, the Kuiper crater on the Moon, craters on Mars and Mercury, and the now-decommissioned Kuiper Airborne Observatory were named in his honor. Click [/Gerard%20Kuiper here] for an extended description of his lunar work.
• This replacement name for a formerly [/lettered%20crater lettered crater] was introduced on LTO-76D2 (for which it served as the chart title). - JimMosher JimMosher

LPOD Articles

Age Dating a Moon Photo

Bibliography

National Geographic february 1969: Moon Men (Gerard P. Kuiper: page 212, lower left photograph, with Ewen A. Whitaker and Robert Strom).
 
 

Gerard P. Kuiper in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)

- In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
  (articles in which Kuiper is mentioned)
 

• Page 119: A review of some ALPO Venus studies (Dale P. Cruikshank, Strolling Astronomer, 1963).
• Page 135: Venus breathes in steady fashion (New Scientist, 1973).

Note:
It's a bit strange to come across Kuiper in VENUS-related articles. One should expect the appearance of his name in lots of moon articles. I went through all 701 pages of Mysterious Universe, but... detected Kuiper on only two pages... - DannyCaes DannyCaes Apr 26, 2015

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