Pomortsev
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Pomortsev
(formerly [/Dubyago Dubyago] P, and before that [/Mare%20Spumans Mare Spumans] P)
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Lat: 0.7°N, Long: 66.9°E, Diam: 23 km, Depth: 1.46 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2038 Rükl: 38] |
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[#Pomortsev Pomortsev]
[#Pomortsev-Images Images]
[#Pomortsev-Maps Maps]
[#Pomortsev-Description Description]
[#Pomortsev-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Pomortsev-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Pomortsev-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Pomortsev-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Pomortsev-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-184H Pomortsev is the irregularly shaped crater above center. The 7-km diameter circular crater above it is [/Dubyago Dubyago] N. The long shadows in the lower right are being cast onto the floor of 37-km [/Maclaurin Maclaurin] O. They correspond to height differences of up to about 2800 m. The 8-km circular crater on the floor of [/Maclaurin Maclaurin] O is unnamed.Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
AS10-29-4241 and AS10-29-4242 are two of Apollo 10's orbital Hasselblad photographs of the somewhat "rectangle"-shaped dark crater Pomortsev, visible near the centre of both frames. Photographs made during high solar illumination.
AS10-30-4496 also shows the rectangular shape of Pomortsev, touching the eastern rim of Mare Spumans.
Research: Danny Caes
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 62C3) LAC map Geologic map LM map LTO map
Description
This is a small complex crater that has been flooded with mare lava that rose up fractures under the crater and covered its central peak and wall terraces. The crater is only preserved because it formed on a relatively high spot - the rims of older features. It is one of the many features that was inadvisedly named in the 1970s; its previous lettered status is more consistent with its value as a landmark.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 1.46 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Mikhail Mikhailovich Pomortsev (1851-1916), Russian rocketry scientist.
- This crater was known as [/Mare%20Spumans Mare Spumans] P in [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] (1935).
- The name was changed to [/Dubyago Dubyago] P in the [/System%20of%20Lunar%20Craters System of Lunar Craters].
- Pomortsev, as replacement name for a formerly [/lettered%20crater lettered crater], was introduced on LTO-62C3 (for which it served as the chart title). The name was approved in 1976 ([/IAU%20Transactions%20XVIB IAU Transactions XVIB]). - JimMosher JimMosher
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings (Harold Hill), pages 24, 25 (Dubyago P/ Pomortsev in Mare Spumans).
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