Bailly-Newton Basin

Bailly-Newton Basin

(unofficial name)

Lat: 73°S, Long: 57°W, Main ring diam: 330 km, Depth: km, Rükl: 72

Left Annotated Clementine image from Map-A-Planet Right Clementine LIDAR data: altitude-coded shaded relief map. The large ring overlaying Bailly-Newton on the northwest is Bailly.

Table of Contents

[#Bailly-Newton Basin Bailly-Newton Basin]

[#Bailly-Newton Basin-Images Images]

[#Bailly-Newton Basin-Maps Maps]

[#Bailly-Newton Basin-Basin Classification Basin Classification]

[#Bailly-Newton Basin-Description Description]

[#Bailly-Newton Basin-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Bailly-Newton Basin-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Bailly-Newton Basin-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Bailly-Newton Basin-Bibliography Bibliography]

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images

Maps

(LAC zone 136C1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

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
Very Uncertain			330 km

Description

Additional Information

Discovered by Cook et al (2000)
 
 

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 Bailly and Newton.
 
 

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

Discovery paper

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