Yerkes
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Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium)
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Lat: 14.57°N, Long: 51.7°E, Diam: 35.66 km, Depth: 0.62 km, Rükl: 26 | |
Right: LO-IV-191H
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[#Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium) Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium)]
[#Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium)-Images Images]
[#Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium)-Maps Maps]
[#Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium)-Description Description]
[#Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium)-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]
[#Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium)-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium)-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium)-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Yerkes (at the WSW part of Mare Crisium)-Bibliography Bibliography]
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
(LAC zone 62A1) LAC map Geologic map LM map LTO map
Description
Wikipedia
Additional Information
- IAU page: Yerkes
- Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Pike, 1976: 0.62 km
- Westfall, 2000: 0.62 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Charles Tyson Yerkes (June 25, 1837 – December 29, 1905), an American financier. Yerkes decided in 1892 to bankroll the world's largest telescope after being lobbied by the astronomer George Ellery Hale and University of Chicago president William Rainey Harper. He would contribute nearly $300,000 to the University of Chicago to establish what would become known as the Yerkes Observatory, located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin. Although designed for visual use, Ritchey used the Yerkes instruments to photograph the Moon and other objects starting in 1900.
- Rimae Yerkes (an unofficial name from an explorer of all sorts of lunar surface features for the cluster of rilles west-northwest of Yerkes).
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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