Rima Messier
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Rima Messier
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Lat: 1.0°S, Long: 45.0°E, Length: 100 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2048 Rükl 48] |
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[#Rima Messier Rima Messier]
[#Rima Messier-Images Images]
[#Rima Messier-Maps Maps]
[#Rima Messier-Description Description]
[#Rima Messier-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Rima Messier-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Rima Messier-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Rima Messier-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Rima Messier-Bibliography Bibliography]
Maximilian Teodorescu [/Messier Messier] is the right-most crater of the pair near the center. Rimae Messier is seen as the thin gouge slanting up towards the top of the frame, intersecting the top margin about a third of the way from the left, between the craters [/Secchi Secchi] X (left) and [/Secchi Secchi] K (right).
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 79B1) LAC map Geologic map AIC map LTO map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Nomenclature
- Named after the nearby crater ([/Messier Messier]).
- The original IAU nomenclature of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] (1935) included a feature called Messier Ir (Catalog No. 4260, with "r" for "rille) which is actually a 60-70 km wrinkle ridge centered at around 5.1°S/45.4°E -- to the southwest of the [/Messier Messier] pair -- mis-plotted as a rille on the maps of [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison, 1876], whose work greatly influenced the IAU name selections. The Messier Ir of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] was a little north of the cluster of peaks in [/Mare%20Fecunditatis Mare Fecunditatis] then known as Messier Alpha (6.0°S/45.2°E), but now also unnamed.
- On the [/Quad%20Maps maps] of the [/System%20of%20Lunar%20Craters System of Lunar Craters] the name Messier I was recycled to the present, unrelated feature. The new designation appears on Sheet A5, although the rille is neither plotted nor labeled on Sheet A4. It is well drawn on the somewhat contemporaneous LAC 79 (April 1963), but labeled (as Rima Messier I) only on AIC 79B (December 1966).
- Although the name applies to a single rille, rather than a system, the correct designation became uncertain when, in 1973, the IAU declared "Rimae and [/Rima Rima] systems will receive new and more appropriate designations."
- LTO 79B1 (August 1974) suggested the name Fossa Messier, a designation ultimately rejected by the IAU.
- The new designation Rima Messier (without the "I") presumably first appeared in the database prepared for the first print editions of the [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer IAU Planetary Gazetteer].
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Bibliography
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