Freundlich-Sharonov Basin
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Freundlich-Sharonov Basin
(unofficial name)Table of Contents
[#Freundlich-Sharonov Basin Freundlich-Sharonov Basin]
[#Freundlich-Sharonov Basin-Images Images]
[#Freundlich-Sharonov Basin-Maps Maps]
[#Freundlich-Sharonov Basin-Basin Classification Basin Classification]
[#Freundlich-Sharonov Basin-Description Description]
[#Freundlich-Sharonov Basin-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Freundlich-Sharonov Basin-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Freundlich-Sharonov Basin-LROC Articles LROC Articles]
[#Freundlich-Sharonov Basin-Bibliography Bibliography]
| Lat: 18.5°N, Long: 175°E, Main ring diam: 600 km, Depth: 3.6-6.0 km, Rukl: farside | |
Left: Clementine, Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from PDS Map-a-Planet remapped to north-up aerial view by LTVT. The red dot is the central position and the white circle the main ring position from Chuck Wood's Impact Basin Database. Grid spacing = 10 degrees.
Right: LROC WAC image centred on 180 degrees longitude.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
(LAC zone 50D4)
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 |
8 |
640 km |
1.6 km |
Yes; +19 mG gravity anomaly |
Description
Additional Information
The centre of this basin seems to be Lacus Luxuriae.
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 Freundlich and Sharonov.
The name Freundlich-Sharonov Basin seems to be a rather difficult one to write, because it is mentioned (several times) as Freundlich-Sharanov Basin in Charles J. Byrne's The Far Side of the Moon: a Photographic Guide (Springer, 2008).
LROC Articles
Hunting for Ancient Lunar Impact Basins (Figure 1 of this article shows the Freundlich-Sharonov Basin).
Bibliography
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