Banachiewicz
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Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor)
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Lat: 5.2°N, Long: 80.1°E, Diam: 92 km, Depth: 1.68 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2038 Rükl: 38] |
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[#Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor) Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor)]
[#Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor)-Images Images]
[#Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor)-Maps Maps]
[#Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor)-Description Description]
[#Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor)-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor)-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor)-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor)-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Banachiewicz (and Knox-Shaw on its floor)-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-165H Banachiewicz is the large, faintly-visible depression in the center. The 12-km circular crater near its center is [/Knox-Shaw Knox-Shaw]. The more complicated 24-km crater to its left is Banachiewicz B. In the lower left, just outside the main rim of Banachiewicz is 27-km [/Schubert Schubert] E and a part of 35-km [/Schubert Schubert] F.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
An oblique northward look at Banachiewicz B is noticeable near the right margin of Apollo 16's orbital ITEK-panoramic frame AS16-P-5127.
Research: Danny Caes
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 63C1) LTO map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 1.68 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Tadeusz Banachiewicz (February 13, 1882 - Novenber 17, 1954), a Polish astronomer and mathematician. He authored approximately 180 research papers and modified the method of determining parabolic orbits. In 1925, he invented a theory of "cracovians" — a special kind of matrix algebra — which brought him international recognition. This theory solved several astronomical, geodesic, mechanical and mathematical problems.
- 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 109 km diameter crater at 5.5°N, 80.5°E.
- 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 [/Schlesinger Schlesinger] B.
- 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 "5°N, 80°E".
- The version of [/DMA ACIC] map [/LMP LMP-3] from October, 1970 (prepared before the final IAU farside list had been published) labels Banachiewicz at the proposed changed location (the current [/Schlesinger Schlesinger] B), as does the light blue colored farside map in Patrick Moore's Atlas of the Universe (1983). - DannyCaes DannyCaes May 25, 2008
- Banachiewicz is one of the larger craters of which the name (in this case: Banachiewicz) was not printed on the corresponding LAC-map of the Clementine Atlas of the Moon (B.Bussey/ P.Spudis).- DannyCaes DannyCaes Dec 12, 2009
LPOD Articles
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