Auzout
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Auzout
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Lat: 10.3°N, Long: 64.1°E, Diam: 32 km, Depth: 3.85 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2038 Rükl: 38] |
Table of Contents
[#Auzout Auzout]
[#Auzout-Images Images]
[#Auzout-Maps Maps]
[#Auzout-Description Description]
[#Auzout-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Auzout-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Auzout-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Auzout-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Auzout-North Valley North Valley]
[#Auzout-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Auzout-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-184H Auzout is in above center, touching [/van%20Albada van Albada] to its southeast.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 62B4) LAC map Geologic map LM map LTO map
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) AZOUT.--A small ring-plain, connected with [/Firmicus Firmicus] by a lofty ridge. It is the apparent centre of many other ridges and valleys which radiate from it towards the N.E. and the [/Mare%20Crisium Mare Crisium]. There is a central mountain, not an easy telescopic object, on its dusky floor.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Pike, 1976: 3.85 km
- Westfall, 2000: 3.85 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 0.7 km
- Central peak height
- [/Sekiguchi%2C%201972 Sekiguchi, 1972]: 1.2 km - fatastronomer fatastronomer
Nomenclature
- Adrien; French astronomer, physicist (1622-1691).
- Harold Hill called the southeastern corner of Mare Crisium Promontorium Auzout Delta (see bibliography below).
- Auzout Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta (four sections of the southeastern rim of Mare Crisium, near Auzout) (see the greenish map of the moon in the Dutch classic Op Ontdekking in het Maanland by A.J.M.Wanders). These four Greek lettered sections are not mentioned on chart SLC A4 from the System of Lunar Craters, 1966.
North Valley
- Southeast of Mare Crisium (near Condorcet, Auzout, Firmicus, and Apollonius) runs the unofficially named North Valley/ Vallis North; or Vermiform Valley. These unofficial names are included in the Hitchhiker's Guide to Rukl 38.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Wood, C.A. Feb. 2004. Auzout: A Minor Crater and Some Big Ideas. S&T Feb. 2004
Promontorium Auzout delta:
A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings (Harold Hill), pages 26, 27 (the SE corner of the Mare Crisium region).
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