Eichstadt
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Eichstadt
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Lat: 22.6°S, Long: 78.3°W, Diam: 49 km, Depth: 4.52 km, Rükl: 50 |
left: LOIV-181-h1 . right: LROC . Montes Cordillera are inmediately adjacent to Eichstadt west rim.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
(LAC zone 91B4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Elger
(IAU Directions) EICHSTADT.--A ring-plain, 32 miles in diameter, near the W. limb, S. of Rocca. It is the largest and most southerly of three nearly circular enclosures, without central mountains or any other details of interest. On the E. lies a great walled-plain with a very irregular border, containing several ring-plains and craters, and a crater-rill. Schmidt has named this formation DARWIN.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 4.52 km
- Central peak composition: A & GNTA1 (Tompkins & Pieters, 1999)
Nomenclature
Lorentz Eichstadt (1596-1660) was a German mathematician and astronomer.
LPOD Articles
A Bump in the Day (an extraordinary photograph of Eichstadt and environs by Pete Lawrence, interesting to compare with page 151 of Harold Hill's A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings)(see below; Bibliography).- DannyCaes Oct 16, 2008
Bibliography
A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings (Harold Hill), page 151 (the Eichstadt sector of the Mare Orientale region).
