Watt
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Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt)
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Lat: 49.5°S, Long: 48.6°E, Diam: 66 km, Depth: 3.45 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2076 Rükl: 76] |
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[#Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt) Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt)]
[#Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt)-Images Images]
[#Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt)-Maps Maps]
[#Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt)-Description Description]
[#Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt)-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt)-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt)-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt)-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Watt (of the pair Steinheil / Watt)-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-071H Watt is the crater in the lower right, overlain by the similarly-sized [/Steinheil Steinheil] (to its northwest). The sharp-shadowed 6-km circle of Watt B can be seen on the south floor of Watt, with 10-km Watt A and 12-km Watt B beyond it (outside the rim). In the upper left corner of this view are 17-km [/Steinheil Steinheil] X and 16-km [/Steinheil Steinheil] Y (only partially visible).
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 128A2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 3.45 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 3 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 1.98 km
Nomenclature
James Watt (January 19, 1736 – August 19, 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution. Watt continued to invent other things before and during his semi-retirement. He invented a new method of measuring distances by telescope.
- [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 200) notes that the combination of [/Steinheil Steinheil] and Watt was labeled Zamosci on [/Langrenus van Langren]'s 1645 map. Whitaker does not explain where the name [/Steinheil Steinheil] came from, but evidently in [/Elger Elger]'s day the entire structure was known by that name. The name [/Watt Watt], for the eastern part, was apparently introduced by [/Schmidt Schmidt] ([/Whitaker Whitaker], p. 224). - JimMosher JimMosher
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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