Brianchon
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Brianchon
(formerly [/Carpenter Carpenter] C)
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Lat: 75.0°N, Long: 86.2°W, Diam: 134 km, Depth: 3.7 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%203 Rükl: 3] |
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[#Brianchon Brianchon]
[#Brianchon-Images Images]
[#Brianchon-Maps Maps]
[#Brianchon-Description Description]
[#Brianchon-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Brianchon-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Brianchon-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Brianchon-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Brianchon-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-190M Brianchon's rim is interrupted on the north by 50-km Brianchon A, and on the south (just to the left of the centerline) by 31-km Brianchon B. The 67-km crater in the upper right is [/Poncelet Poncelet] C, and the large light area below it (along the right margin) is the western part of 115-km [/Pascal Pascal].
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 9B3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 5.36 km
- Measures on LRO QuickMap give depth about 3.7 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Charles Julien Brianchon (1783-1864), a French mathematician and chemist. Brianchon is best known for his proof of Brianchon's theorem (1810).
- This feature was Catalog Numbers 1360 and 1695 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List] (1913), where it is said to have been called [/Anaximander Anaximander] C in [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison, 1876] and [/Anaximenes Anaximenes] C in [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler]. It entered the original IAU nomenclature of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] (1935) as [/Carpenter Carpenter] C (Catalog Numbers 1695). A note there mentions the same feature was labeled by Franz as [/Anaximander Anaximander] d.
- The replacement name Brianchon was given by Arthur and Whitaker in the [/Rectified%20Lunar%20Atlas Rectified Lunar Atlas] (1963) and approved by IAU in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIIB 1964].
- A pronounced valley between Brianchon and [/Sylvester Sylvester] (north of Brianchon, east of [/Froelich Froelich]) is unofficially called Vallis Sylvester by D. Caes. See LAC 9 in the [/Clementine%20Atlas Clementine Atlas] (the upper right corner of LAC 9). Note that this valley is NOT [/Catena%20Sylvester Catena Sylvester]!
- A very narrow valley running through Brianchon A at the northern part of Brianchon's rim is unofficially called Vallis Brianchon A by D.Caes
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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