Abel

Lat: 34.44°S, Long: 85.42°E, Diam: 119.44 km, Depth: 1.19 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2069 Rükl: 69]

Abel and the curious arc-shaped remains of a small crater (on the northeastern part of Abel's dark floor) are also noticeable on several of Apollo 15's south-looking oblique Fairchild mapping/metric camera photographs, such as AS15-M-2507. In this frame, Abel is depicted very near the curved horizon (the central part of it).
- Research orbital Apollo 15 photography: Danny Caes.

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 116A1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

IAU page: Abel
Data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher crater depths]
- Westfall, 2000: 1.19 km
Magnetic field anomaly at -25°, 90° and nearby gravity anomaly. Unlike most magnetic anomalies (e.g. Reiner Gamma) there is no known albedo feature at Abel. [/Milbury%20et%20al%2C%202008 Milbury et al, 2008]

Named for Niels Henrik Abel (August 5, 1802–April 6, 1829), a Norwegian mathematician. Abel's first notable work was a proof of the impossibility of solving the quintic equation by radicals.
Not to be confused with Abell (George Ogden Abell; American astronomer, 1927-1983).
Name originally given by Franz, but not included in Blagg and Müller's [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] so not considered official IAU nomenclature until Whitaker and Arthur included it in the [/Rectified%20Lunar%20Atlas Rectified Lunar Atlas] ([/Whitaker Whitaker], p. 225).

[/Abel%20Satellite%20Features Abel Satellite Features]

Hill, Harold. 1991. [/Hill%2C%201991 A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings]., page 239 (limb regions south and east of [/Humboldt Humboldt]).

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