Le Gentil

Le Gentil

Lat: 74.6°S, Long: 75.7°W, Diam: 128 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2072 Rükl 72]

Table of Contents

[#Le Gentil Le Gentil]

[#Le Gentil-Images Images]

[#Le Gentil-Maps Maps]

[#Le Gentil-Description Description]

[#Le Gentil-Description: Elger Description: Elger]

[#Le Gentil-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]

[#Le Gentil-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Le Gentil-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Le Gentil-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Le Gentil-Bibliography Bibliography]

LO-IV-193H

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 136D1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description

Description: Elger

([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) LEGENTIL.--A large walled-plain, close to the limb, S. of [/Bailly Bailly].

Description: Wikipedia

Le Gentil

Additional Information

• The shadows in LO-IV-193H, suggest that at some points the east rim of Le Gentil is more than 5000 m above the floor. - JimMosher JimMosher
• The southeastern sunlit inner slope of Le Gentil A is partially visible near the lower right corner of this photograph which shows the region along the 50° West meridian at LAC 136 in the [/Clementine%20Atlas Clementine Atlas] (looking southward). The "flap" which is hanging off the lady's table is located at 75° South/ 50° West. Research: Danny Caes and John Moore.

Nomenclature

• Named for Guillaume Hyazinthe Le Gentil (1725-1792), a French astronomer. One of his interesting findings was that the duration of the lunar eclipse of 30 August 1765 was predicted by a Tamil astronomer, based on the computation of the size and extent of the earth-shadow (going back to Aryabhata, 5th c.), and was found short by 41 seconds, whereas the charts of Tobias Mayer were long by 68 seconds.
• This feature was catalog entry 2665 in the original [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] of [/Blagg%20and%20M%C3%BCller Blagg and Müller], where it is spelled Legentil. The name is attributed to Schröter.
• Kuiper (in his [/PLA%20Table%20III Photographic Lunar Atlas]) suggested the position shown in the IAU's [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] charts was imprecise, and revised the location to correspond to the "original authority" (Schröter). The positional changes in the [/PLA%20Table%20III Photographic Lunar Atlas] were approved in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIB 1961], at which time the IAU also changed the spelling to Le Gentil. - JimMosher JimMosher

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

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