Lamarck
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Lamarck
| Lat: 22.9°S, Long: 69.8°W, Diam: 100 km, Depth: 1.11 km, Rükl: 50 |
Table of Contents
[#Lamarck Lamarck]
[#Lamarck-Images Images]
[#Lamarck-Maps Maps]
[#Lamarck-Description Description]
[#Lamarck-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Lamarck-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Lamarck-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Lamarck-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Lamarck-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-168H Lamarck is at the center, blending into [/Darwin Darwin] above it. The crater in the lower right is [/Byrgius Byrgius] D.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Is the most pronounced crater in Lamarck, known as Lamarck B, a Concentric Crater? Take a look at the Hi-Res scan of Lunar Orbiter 4's photograph LOIV-168-h1.
Research: Danny Caes
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 92A4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 1.11 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 2.8 km
Possible Concentric Crater: Lamarck B.- DannyCaes DannyCaes Nov 2, 2009
Nomenclature
- Named for Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 – December 28, 1829), a French soldier, naturalist, academic and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. Lamarck is usually remembered for his belief in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and the "use and disuse" model by which organisms developed their characteristics.
- This name was assigned in the [/Rectified%20Lunar%20Atlas Rectified Lunar Atlas] (1963), based on Earth-based photos of the [/librations libration] zones, and approved by the [/IAU IAU] in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIIB 1964], to which it was described as a 96 km diameter crater centered at 22.5°S, 70.0°E, and formerly regarded as the southern part of [/Darwin Darwin].
- In preparing its initial long list of farside names, the IAU Working Group for Lunar Nomenclature was initially unable to find evidence in space-based overhead views of a significant crater at that location, and announced at the [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIVB August 1970] IAU meeting its plan of deleting the 1964 approval and reassigning the name to a farside crater now known as [/Hopmann Hopmann].
- Subsequent to the 1970 meeting, Whitaker produced space-based images of the crater he had intended to name. The name was reapproved in [/Menzel%2C%201971#Relocations_2 Menzel, 1971] as representing the crater at "22°S, 70°W".
- The version of [/DMA ACIC] map [/LMP LMP-3] from October, 1970 (prepared before the final IAU farside list had been published) labels Lamarck at the proposed changed location (the current [/Hopmann Hopmann]).
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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