Rayet
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Rayet
| Lat: 44.7°N, Long: 114.5°E, Diam: 27 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) |
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Rayet's bowl-shaped appearance is noticeable near the lower right corner of Apollo 16's Fairchild-camera photograph AS16-M-3004, which was made during Trans Earth Coast (TEC).
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Nomenclature
Georges Antoine Pons Rayet (December 22, 1839 – June 14, 1906) was a French astronomer. He worked on meteorology in addition to astronomy. He specialized in what was then the new field of spectroscopy. He discovered Wolf-Rayet stars together with Charles Wolf in 1867.
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