Scoresby
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Scoresby
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Lat: 77.7°N, Long: 14.1°E, Diam: 55 km, Depth: 4.1 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%204 Rükl: 4], [/Stratigraphy Eratosthenian] |
Table of Contents
[#Scoresby Scoresby]
[#Scoresby-Images Images]
[#Scoresby-Maps Maps]
[#Scoresby-Description Description]
[#Scoresby-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Scoresby-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Scoresby-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Scoresby-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Scoresby-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Scoresby-Bibliography Bibliography]
Clementine
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 4A1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) SCORESBY.--A much fore-shortened deep ring-plain, 36 miles in diameter, between [/Barrow Barrow] and the limb. It has a central mountain with two peaks, which are very difficult to detect.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 4.1 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 2.4 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 3.59 km
- [/Central%20peak%20composition Central peak composition]: GNTA1 ([/Tompkins%20%26%20Pieters%2C%201999 Tompkins & Pieters, 1999])
- Central peak height
- [[Sekiguchi, 1972]: 1.3 km* 1.3 km peak immediately to the east of the central peak - fatastronomer fatastronomer**
Nomenclature
William Scoresby (5 October 1789 - 21 March 1857) was an English Arctic explorer, scientist and divine.
Scoresby A was called Sacco by Wilkins and Paluzie-Borrell, but the [/IAU IAU] did not accept that name.
- Sacco was a contemporary Spanish astronomer.
LPOD Articles
Not Santa's Pole.
Over the Pole
Bibliography
- Scoresby A (Sacco): [/Wilkins%20and%20Moore Wilkins and Moore].
- By William Scoresby: -A Description of Some Appearances of Remarkable Rainbows- (Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1827), see Rare Halos, Mirages, Anomalous Rainbows, and related electromagnetic phenomena (William R. Corliss, The Sourcebook Project, 1984).
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