Licetus
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Licetus
| Lat: 47.1°S, Long: 6.7°E, Diam: 74 km, Depth: 3.53 km, Rükl: 65, pre-Nectarian |
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[#Licetus Licetus]
[#Licetus-Images Images]
[#Licetus-Maps Maps]
[#Licetus-Description Description]
[#Licetus-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Licetus-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Licetus-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Licetus-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Licetus-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Licetus-Bibliography Bibliography]
Howard Eskildsen Licetus is at the top, overlapping [/Heraclitus Heraclitus]. [/Cuvier Cuvier] is to the lower right.
Images
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Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 112C3) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) LICETUS.--An irregular formation, about 50 miles in maximum width, on the S. of [/St%C3%B6fler Stofler], with the flanks of which it is connected by a coarse valley. Neison points out that it consists of a group of ring-plains united into one, owing to the separating walls having been partially destroyed. This seems to be clearly the case, if Licetus is examined under a low sun. On the W. side of the N. portion of the formation, the wall rises to nearly 13,000 feet.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 3.53 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 3.8 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Fortunio Liceti (1577-1657), also known as Fortunius Licetus, an Italian physicist, philosopher and doctor. He was noted for his expertise on Aristotle. He was also known for unusual proposals and investigations, including topics in astronomy, phosphorescence, gems, and mysticism.
- The present feature is part of a complex of craters given the name Licetus by [/Riccioli Riccioli].
- The present component was Catalog number 3414 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List]. A note (page 175) indicates the [/Julius%20Schmidt Julius Schmidt] restricted the name to this part, known as Licetus a in [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler] and [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison, 1876], giving the name [/Heraclitus Heraclitus] to another part.
- Schmidt's definition was adopted in [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] (1935).
- Licetus F was called Wright by [/Wilkins%20and%20Moore Wilkins and Moore], but the [/IAU IAU] did not accept that name. William Hammond Wright (1871-1959) is one of three people currently honored by the crater name [/Wright Wright].
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Hill, Harold. [/A%20Portfolio%20of%20Lunar%20Drawings A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings], pages 184, 185.
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