Balmer
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Balmer
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Lat: 20.3°S, Long: 69.8°E, Diam: 138 km, Depth: 1.96 km, Rükl: 60 |
Derek Francis, Humboldt, Hecataeus & Balmer: Balmer is the old crater near the center with a small crater within it.
Images
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Maps
(LAC zone 98B3) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 1.96 km
Nomenclature
- Johann Jakob; Swiss mathematician, physician (1825-1898).
- Name given by Arthur and Whitaker in Rectified Lunar Atlas (1963) and approved by IAU in 1964 (Whitaker, 1999, p234).
LPOD Articles
A Balmy Basin (the MoonWiki version of the same LPOD: A Balmy Basin).
Balmer or Balmy?
Still balmy after all these years
Bibliography
Hawke, BR & 8 more (2004). Remote sensing and geologic studies of the Balmer region of the Moon. Lunar & Planetary Science 35, 1190.
A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings (Harold Hill), pages 222, 223.
