Puiseux
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Puiseux
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Lat: 27.8°S, Long: 39.0°W, Diam: 24 km, Depth: 0.34 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2052 Rükl: 52] |
Table of Contents
[#Puiseux Puiseux]
[#Puiseux-Images Images]
[#Puiseux-Maps Maps]
[#Puiseux-Description Description]
[#Puiseux-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Puiseux-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Puiseux-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Puiseux-Lettered Craters Lettered Craters]
[#Puiseux-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Puiseux-Bibliography Bibliography]
[#Puiseux-P. Puiseux in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss) P. Puiseux in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)]
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Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 93C1) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 0.34 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 0.4 km
- Satellite crater Puiseux D is on the [/ALPO%20list%20of%20bright%20ray%20craters ALPO list of bright ray craters].
Nomenclature
- Named for Pierre Puiseux (1855-1928), a French astronomer. Puiseux, with [/Loewy Loewy], compiled the Paris Observatory's Atlas Photographique de la Lune, one of the first comprehensive photographic atlases of the Moon, appearing between 1896 and 1910. He also published a 1908 book on comparative lunar and terrestrial geology, La terre et la lune, which includes examples of early artificial impact cratering experiments by Hermann Alsdorf, as well as doing theoretical work on tidal acceleration and the Moon's oscillations about its center of gravity.
- This feature was Catalog number 2382 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List] where all three authorities adopted the convention of [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler], calling it [/Doppelmayer Doppelmayer] c.
- In the original IAU nomenclature of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] (1935) the name was changed to Puiseux, adopting a proposal by [/Krieger Krieger] and [/K%C3%B6nig König].
- According to the [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations%20Text introductory material] to [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations], Pierre Puiseux was a long-standing member of the committees overseeing the international consolidation of lunar nomenclature (nearly all of whom have themselves been honored by the IAU with crater names).
- Pierre Puiseux was the son of the equally (or even more) famous Victor Puiseux, who made substantial contributions to celestial mechanics, including [/lunar%20theory lunar theory], but the lunar name does not appear to honor him.
Lettered Craters
Excerpt from the USGS Digital Atlas of the Moon.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
- Puiseux, Pierre Henri (obituary notice)
P. Puiseux in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)
- In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
- Page 30: The Reaction of the Planets upon the Sun (Popular Astronomy, 1915).
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