Vallis Bouvard
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Vallis Bouvard
(current [/IAU IAU] name; original IAU name: Bouvard)
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Lat: 38.3°S, Long: 83.1°W, Length: 284 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2061 Rükl: 61] |
Table of Contents
[#Vallis Bouvard Vallis Bouvard]
[#Vallis Bouvard--Images Images]
[#Vallis Bouvard--Maps Maps]
[#Vallis Bouvard--Description Description]
[#Vallis Bouvard--Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Vallis Bouvard--Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Vallis Bouvard--Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Vallis Bouvard--Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Vallis Bouvard--LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Vallis Bouvard--Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-186H Vallis Bouvard is the snake-like form slithering across the center of the image.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 109A4)
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) BOUVARD.--A great irregular enclosure, which appears to be still larger than [/Lagrange Lagrange], S.W. of [/Piazzi Piazzi], and close to the limb. It is bounded by a very lofty rampart, rising at a peak on the E. to 10,000 feet. It has a fine central mountain.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Nomenclature
- Named for Alexis Bouvard (1767-1843), a French astronomer and mathematician.
- Bouvard was listed as a Catalog Entry 2240 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List] of 1913.
- The original [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] of [/Blagg%20and%20M%C3%BCller Blagg and Müller] included Bouvard as well as ten [/lettered%20craters lettered craters] and four Greek-lettered [/mons peaks] named after it. Bouvard was listed as an 80-km diameter "ring plain" (crater). The name is attributed to Mädler.
- The name was changed from Bouvard to Vallis Bouvard as part of the re-naming of vaguely defined features in the [/Mare%20Orientale Mare Orientale] region announced in [/Menzel%2C%201971 Menzel, 1971].
LPOD Articles
Bumpy, Lumpy, and Where? (see this LPOD's discussion).
Bibliography
Harold Hill. 1991. [/A%20Portfolio%20of%20Lunar%20Drawings A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings] pages 166, 167 (the [/Vallis%20Baade Baade]-[/Vallis%20Inghirami Inghirami]-Bouvard valleys).
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