Al-Tusi
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King Y
(formerly known as Al-Tusi, a discontinued(?) IAU name)
| Lat: 6.5°N, Long: 119.8°E, Diam: 48 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) |
Table of Contents
[#King Y King Y]
[#King Y-Images Images]
[#King Y-Maps Maps]
[#King Y-Description Description]
[#King Y-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#King Y-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#King Y-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#King Y-LROC Articles LROC Articles]
[#King Y-Bibliography Bibliography]
AS16-M-2094 King Y (with part of 76-km [/King King] to its southeast) nearly fills this Apollo view, but its smooth floor is more obvious than its broad sloping walls.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- King Y (the LTO's Al-Tusi) was also photographed on color Hasselblad film, such as Apollo 16's frames AS16-120-19265 (near the frame's lower left corner), 19266 (left of frame's centre), 19267 (near the frame's upper left corner), and 19273 (central).
- Research orbital Apollo 16 photography: Danny Caes.
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 65D2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF LTO map Topophotomap
IAU page
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Nomenclature
- This farside [/satellite%20feature satellite feature] of [/King King] was given its present name by Ewen Whitaker in [/NASA%20RP-1097 NASA RP-1097] (1982). However, it had previously been given the distinctive name of Al-Tusi when, in 1976, the [/IAU IAU] approved that provisional name for the crater at 7.0 N, 120.0 W "as assigned", presumably on LTO-65C1 and LTO-65D2 ([/IAU%20Transactions%20XVIB IAU Transactions XVIB]). Al-Tusi was also incorporated into several minor feature names introduced on Topophotomap 65D2(S1). However, as Whitaker notes in his list of [/invalid%20names invalid names], the "Al-Tusi" mentioned in the IAU citation is the same person as the one already honored by the nearside crater [/Nasireddin Nasireddin]. The name Al-Tusi (for the farside features) seems to have been dropped, for that name does not appear in the on-line [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer IAU Planetary Gazetteer]. But since there is no further mention of it in the [/IAU%20Transactions IAU Transactions], exactly when and where it was dropped is unclear. Whitaker's own system of [/lettered%20crater lettered craters] for the farside (as published in [/NASA%20RP-1097 NASA RP-1097]) was adopted by the IAU in 2006 ([/IAU%20Transactions%20XXVI IAU Transactions XXVI]). - JimMosher JimMosher
LROC Articles
An Impact Melt Veneer in the Highlands
Bibliography
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