Abel

Lat: 34.44°S, Long: 85.42°E, Diam: 119.44 km, Depth: 1.19 km, Rükl: 69

Abel and the curious arc-shaped remains of a small crater (on the northeastern part of Abel's dark floor) are also noticeable on several of Apollo 15's south-looking oblique Fairchild mapping/metric camera photographs, such as AS15-M-2507. In this frame, Abel is depicted very near the curved horizon (the central part of it).
- Research orbital Apollo 15 photography: Danny Caes.

Maps

IAU page: Abel
Data from Kurt Fisher crater depths
- Westfall, 2000: 1.19 km
Magnetic field anomaly at -25°, 90° and nearby gravity anomaly. Unlike most magnetic anomalies (e.g. Reiner Gamma) there is no known albedo feature at Abel. Milbury et al, 2008

Named for Niels Henrik Abel (August 5, 1802–April 6, 1829), a Norwegian mathematician. Abel's first notable work was a proof of the impossibility of solving the quintic equation by radicals.
Not to be confused with Abell (George Ogden Abell; American astronomer, 1927-1983).
Name originally given by Franz, but not included in Blagg and Müller's Named Lunar Formations so not considered official IAU nomenclature until Whitaker and Arthur included it in the Rectified Lunar Atlas (Whitaker, p. 225).

Hill, Harold. 1991. A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings., page 239 (limb regions south and east of Humboldt).

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