Moigno
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Moigno
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Lat: 66.4°N, Long: 28.9°E, Diam: 36 km, Depth: 0.76 km, Rükl 5 |
LO-IV-092H Moigno is in the center. On its floor is the 9-km shadowed circle of Moigno C. Also visible in this view are 9-km Neison A (upper left) and 11-km Arnold G. Partially visible along the bottom margin is the northern part of 23-km Moigno D (on the left), and a similarly-sized, but unnamed, crater to its east.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
(LAC zone 4D3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Elger
(IAU Directions) MOIGNO.--A ring-plain with a dark floor, adjoining Arnold on the N.W. There is a conspicuous little crater in the interior.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 0.76 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Francois Napoleon Marie Moigno (Abbe Moigno) (b. 15 April, 1804; d. 14 July, 1884), a physicist and author. In 1852 he founded the well-known scientific journal Cosmos.
- The name Moigno seems to first appear in a list of new lunar names proposed by John Lee and W. R. Birt published in MNRAS and slightly expanded in Astronomische Nachrichten. In neither publication is the identity of the honoree explained.
- This feature is Catalog number 683 in Mary Blagg's Collated List, where the name Moigno is noted as having been used in Neison, 1876. Neither Julius Schmidt nor Beer and Mädler named the feature. Instead, Schmidt complained he was unable to identify the British Association's Moigno and Peters (another name that appeared in the Birt and Lee list).
- The name Moigno was adopted into the original IAU nomenclature of Named Lunar Formations.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Abbe Moigno in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)
- Page 46 in: Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
- A Supposed New Interior Planet (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1859).
