Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin
Contents
Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin
(unofficial name)Table of Contents
[#Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin]
[#Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin-Images Images]
[#Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin-Maps Maps]
[#Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin-Basin Classification Basin Classification]
[#Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin-Description Description]
[#Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin-Bibliography Bibliography]
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Lat: 1°N, Long: 112°E, Main ring diam: 590 km, Depth: km, Rukl: (farside) |
Top: Annotated Clementine image from Map-A-Planet.
Bottom: Clementine LIDAR data: altitude-coded shaded relief map
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 65D4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
[/Lunar%20Basins Basin Classification]
(description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) Impact Basin Database)
| Certainty of Existence |
USGS Age |
Wilhelms Age Group |
Ring Diameters |
Mare Thickness |
Mascon |
| Uncertain |
pre-Nectarian |
2 |
250, 590 km |
Description
Additional Information
- Discovered by El-Baz & Wilhelms (1973, 1977)
Nomenclature
- Basins filled with maria are named for the mare, and basins that were previously recognized as craters still bear the crater name. Basins located between craters have the names of the two opposite craters with a hyphen in between, in this case [/Al-Khwarizmi Al-Khwarizmi] and [/King King].
- The name [/Al-Khwarizmi Al-Khwarizmi] was originally proposed by El-Baz (1973) to signify the entire basin, but adopted by the [/IAU IAU] as the name for a crater within it. El-Baz suspected the existence of a 1000-km diameter ring as well as the two mentioned above.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
- El-Baz, Farouk. 1973. Al-Khwarizmi: A New-Found Basin on the Lunar Far Side. Science, Volume 180, Issue 4091, pp. 1173-1176
- Don E. Wilhelms and Farouk El-Baz. 1977. Geologic Map of the East Side of the Moon. U.S. Geological Survey map I-948.
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