Seneca
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Seneca
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Lat: 26.6°N, Long: 80.2°E, Diam: 46 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2027 Rükl: 27] |
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[#Seneca Seneca]
[#Seneca-Images Images]
[#Seneca-Maps Maps]
[#Seneca-Description Description]
[#Seneca-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Seneca-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Seneca-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Seneca-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Seneca-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Seneca-Bibliography Bibliography]
LOIV-165-H3 Seneca is the large, squarish crater in the center. The larger part of the keyhole shape in the lower right is Seneca D.
Images
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Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 45B4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) SENECA.--Rather smaller than [/Plutarch Plutarch]. Too near the limb for satisfactory observation. Schmidt shows two considerable mountains in the interior. The position of this object in Schmidt's chart is not accordant with its place in [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Madler's] map, nor in that of Neison.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Nomenclature
- Named for Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- A.D. 65), a Roman philosopher and natural scientist.
- As noted by Elger, there was considerable confusion about the intended identity of this feature on the classic Moon maps.
- Seneca is listed as catalog entry 137 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List] (1913). Blagg interpreted Schmidt's map as labeling this entry "[/Plutarch Plutarchus]", while using the name Senecea for a feature east of [/Hahn Hahn] that was to enter the [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] as catalog entry 137A = [/Timoleon Timoleon]. She felt both [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison] and [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler] had used "Seneca" for entry 137.
- Catalog entry 137 (Seneca) in [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] was assigned a position of 29.5ºN, 81.3ºE and a diameter of 43 km, with the name being attributed to [/Riccioli Riccioli]. This corresponds to a position between the modern Seneca E and F. Although there is no distinct crater at this location, at [/Full%20Moon Full Moon] it appears as a definite dark spot, similar to [/Hahn Hahn].
- [/Johann%20Schr%C3%B6ter Johann Schröter] thought Riccioli's Seneca was the modern [/Berosus Berosus] (see Plutarch).
- [/Gerard%20Kuiper Gerard Kuiper], in [/PLA%20Table%20III Table III] of his [/Photographic%20Lunar%20Atlas Photographic Lunar Atlas], expressed his opinion that the IAU's Seneca differed from that of the "original authority" (which he identifies as [/M%C3%A4dler Mädler]) and moved the name to its present location. His changes were approved by the IAU in 1961.
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