Cai Lun

Cai Lun

Lat: 80.3°N, Long: 113.5°E, Diam: 43 km, Depth: , Rükl: (farside)

Table of Contents

[#Cai Lun Cai Lun]

[#Cai Lun-Images Images]

[#Cai Lun-Maps Maps]

[#Cai Lun-Description Description]

[#Cai Lun-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]

[#Cai Lun-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Cai Lun-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Cai Lun-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Cai Lun-Bibliography Bibliography]

left: Clementine . right: LROC

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images

Maps

(LAC zone 1D3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

IAU page: Cai Lun

Description

Description: Wikipedia

Cai Lun

Additional Information

• Cai Lun is partially visible from Earth when the librations are favorable. In this geocentric view from August 14, 2010 at 04:00 UT (the peak of the first favorable libration after its naming), simulated with LOLA DEM data, part of its shadowed floor can be seen beyond Nansen. The recently named crater Houssay is also nicely visible. Observers in the Earth's northern hemisphere will see Cai Lunslightly more onto the lunar disk, those in the southern hemisphere less so.
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Nomenclature

• Named for Cai Lun (c. 57-121), a Chinese inventor credited with the invention of paper.
• This name for a previously unnamed crater was approved by the IAU on August 2, 2010.

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

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