Brouwer
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Brouwer
| Lat: 36.2°S, Long: 126.0°W, Diam: 158 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) | |
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Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Frame 20, made by ZOND 8, shows Brouwer just "below" the black disc near the frame's right margin.
Research: Danny Caes
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 122A3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Brouwer is a crater of the [/Stratigraphy Nectarian] period (~ 3.92 to 3.85 bn years) and lies just off the north-eastern sector of the [/South%20Pole-Aitken%20Basin South Pole Aitken Basin] -- a 2500 kilometre-wide basin of the [/Stratigraphy pre-Nectarian] period (~ 4.6 to 3.92 bn years). The rim of Brouwer is barely perceptible in the above image as most of it is well worn down through age and through minor impacts, however, its old appearance and impercibility, undoubtedly, also pays tribute to influence from ejecta deposits from the [/Mare%20Orientale Orientale Basin] -- a basin of the [/Stratigraphy Imbrium] period (3.85 - 3.15 bn years) -- lying just north-east of the crater. Rim-collapsed material has filled most of the eastern floor of Brouwer, while its western sector has been interrupted by a major impact producing [/Langmuir Langmuir] crater. For a complex crater having an approximate diameter of 158 km, Brouwer's central region lacks a peak, however, would the crater (~ 25 km) at the centre of the floor be responsble for obliteration of this missing peak?- JohnMoore2 JohnMoore2
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Nomenclature
- Dirk Brouwer (9/1/1902 – 1/31/1966) was a Dutch-American astronomer. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of the Astronomical Journal. He specialized in celestial mechanics and together with Gerald Clemence wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics.
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (2/27/1881 - 12/2/1966) was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis.
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