Franck
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Franck
(formerly [/R%C3%B6mer Römer] K)
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Lat: 22.58°N, Long: 35.56°E, Diam: 11.91 km, Depth: 2.6 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2025 Rükl: 25] |
Table of Contents
[#Franck Franck]
[#Franck-Images Images]
[#Franck-Maps Maps]
[#Franck-Description Description]
[#Franck-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]
[#Franck-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Franck-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Franck-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Franck-Bibliography Bibliography]
LOIV-073-H3 Franck is the circular crater to the lower right of center. The smaller circular crater in the upper left is [/Brewster Brewster]. The still smaller craters are not named, but the large enclosures partially visible along the top margin are [/R%C3%B6mer Römer] R (upper left) and [/R%C3%B6mer Römer] T (upper right). Franck and [/Brewster Brewster] are themselves in [/Sinus%20Amoris Sinus Amoris].
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- Vertical views of Franck and the system of bright "spokes" on its inner slopes were captured on Apollo 15's orbital ITEK-panoramic frames AS15-P-9278 and AS15-P-9283 (scroll toward the central parts of both frames).
- Research: Danny Caes
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 43D2) LAC map Geologic map LTO map
Description
This is a simple crater with steep walls and a tiny flat floor. It is totally undeserving of a name! - tychocrater tychocrater Sep 29, 2007
Wikipedia
Additional Information
- IAU page: Franck
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 2.6 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 2.51 km
- Included on the [/ALPO%20list%20of%20banded%20craters ALPO list of banded craters]
Nomenclature
- Named for James Franck (August 26, 1882 – May 21, 1964), a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate. In 1925, Franck received the Nobel Prize in Physics, mostly for his work in 1912-1914 which included the Franck-[/Hertz Hertz] experiment, an important confirmation of the [/Bohr Bohr] model of the atom.
- This replacement name for a formerly [/lettered%20crater lettered crater] was introduced on LTO-43D2 (May, 1974 -- for which it served as the chart title). It appears in the cumulative list of approved names in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB IAU Transactions XVB] (1973), and was approved probably approved in that year. Biographical information was unofficially reported in [/Ashbrook%2C%201974 Ashbrook, 1974]. - JimMosher JimMosher
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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