Tralles
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Tralles
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Lat: 28.4°N, Long: 52.8°E, Diam: 43 km, Depth: 3.04 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2026 Rükl: 26] |
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[#Tralles Tralles]
[#Tralles-Images Images]
[#Tralles-Maps Maps]
[#Tralles-Description Description]
[#Tralles-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Tralles-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Tralles-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Tralles-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Tralles-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Tralles-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-191H 30-km [/Debes Debes] is the uppermost crater in this grouping, with 43-km Tralles to the right of center. Between them, below [/Debes Debes], is 33-km [/Debes Debes] A, and to its left, the polygonal 19-km [/Debes Debes] B. The 11-km circular crater in the lower left is Tralles B. The rugged inner wall of the west rim of 125-km [/Cleomedes Cleomedes] looms on the far right.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 44A1) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) TRALLES.--A large irregular crater, one of the deepest on the visible surface of the moon, situated on the N.W. wall of [/Cleomedes Cleomedes]. There is a crater on its N. wall, and, according to Schmidt, some ridges and three closely associated craters on the floor.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
Westfall, 2000: 3.04 km
Viscardy, 1985: 3.35 km - Included in [/ALPO%20list%20of%20bright%20ray%20craters ALPO list of bright ray craters]
Nomenclature
- Johann Georg Tralles (October 15, 1763 - November 19, 1822) was a German mathematician and physicist. In 1798 he served as the Swiss representative to the French metric convocation, and was a member of its committee on weights and measures. He was the inventor of the alcoholmeter, a device for measuring the amount of alcohol in a liquid.
- According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 219), this name was introduced by [/M%C3%A4dler Mädler].
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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