Rimae Gutenberg
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Rimae Gutenberg
Lat: 5.0°S, Long: 38.0°E, Length: 330 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2047 Rükl: 47] |
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Images
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- Sunrise at the Rimae Gutenberg / Capella region, captured in a series of orbital south-looking photographs made during the mission of Apollo 8. An interesting mosaic of these photographs (AS8-13-2228 to 2237) was created by David Woods and Frank O'Brien of the Apollo 8 Flight Journal (the caption "Montes Pyrenaeus" is an error, because these mountains are out of view, to the southeast of the depicted region).
- Apollo 11's oblique east-southeast looking orbital Hasselblad photograph AS11-42-6313 shows Rimae Gutenberg, with the curious "crossing" of the rima on the floor of crater Capella M. Research: Danny Caes
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Nomenclature
- Named after the nearby crater ([/Gutenberg Gutenberg]).
- Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List] of 1913 included one [/vallis valley] (Catalog entry 4322) and two [/rima rilles] (Catalog entries 4323-4324) associated with [/Gutenberg Gutenberg] (then called "Guttemberg").
- The original [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] (1935) listed the two rilles as Guttemberg Ir (Catalog entry 4323) and Guttemberg IIr (Catalog entry 4324). Guttemberg Ir started at the northwest wall of [/Goclenius Goclenius] and ran north to [/Gutenberg Gutenberg] G. Guttemberg IIr started at a peak ("Delta") on the north-northwest wall of [/Gutenberg Gutenberg] and ran to the south across the crater floor towards a distant peak ("Beta"), southwest of [/Gutenberg Gutenberg] D.
- The [/System%20of%20Lunar%20Craters System of Lunar Craters] completely re-numbered and re-assigned the rilles. The former Guttemberg Ir became part of [/Rimae%20Goclenius Rima Goclenius II], and Guttemberg IIr seems to have been dropped except for the faint segment on the floor of [/Gutenberg Gutenberg], which became part of the new Rima Gutenberg I -- extending to the north instead of the south and including the former [/Capella%20rilles Capella IIIr]. The names Rima Gutenberg II and III were assigned to parallel rilles (outside [/Gutenberg Gutenberg] to the east of this (Rima Gutenberg II having been [/Capella%20rilles Capella IIr]); and the names Rima Gutenberg IV and V were given to distant rilles to the west, closer to [/Censorinus Censorinus]. Rima Gutenberg IV was [/Capella%20rilles Capella Ir] in [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations]. Rima Gutenberg V seems to have been formerly unnamed. These assignments are illustrated on charts A5 and B5 of the SLC [/Quad%20Maps Quad Maps].
- Rimae Gutenberg is not labeled on LAC 79, but some of the rilles are labeled on AIC-79A.
- In [/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB 1976], the [/IAU IAU] adopted a resolution recommending that all rille numbers be replaced with "more meaningful names." As with all other then-numbered rille systems, the existence of the name Rimae Gutenberg was dutifully recorded in the [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer IAU Planetary Gazetteer], but no attempt was made to specify the exact rilles denoted by the name.
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