Jeans
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Jeans
| Lat: 55.8°S, Long: 91.4°E, Diam: 79 km, Depth: 3.8 km, Rükl: (farside) |
left: Clementine . right: LROC . Jeans at center, satellites X, U, S and N at left border of image from top to bottom. Jeans lies at the southern central sector of Mare Australe .
Images
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- Jeans as seen by a Hasselblad camera of Apollo 15, and captured on color film: AS15-96-13093. In this photograph, the location of Jeans is a wee tiny bit to the left of the frame's centre. See also the Hi-Res scan: AS15-96-13093 HR.
- The (more or less) Concentric Crater northeast of Jeans, which is included in C.A.Wood's list as item N°15, is noticeable on the Hi-Res scan of Lunar Orbiter 4's photograph LOIV-005-h3.
Research Apollo 15 and Lunar Orbiter IV photography: Danny Caes.
Maps
(LAC zone 129B4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 3.8 km
Concentric Crater northeast of Jeans.
Nomenclature
- Sir James Hopwood Jeans; British mathematical physicist and popularizer of astronomy (1877-1946).
- Name given by Arthur and Whitaker in Rectified Lunar Atlas (1963) and approved by IAU in 1964 (Whitaker, 1999, p234).
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Sir James Jeans in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)
- Page 548 in Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
- A New Law of Satellite Distances (J.B.Penniston, Science, 1930).
