Tempel
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Tempel
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Lat: 3.9°N, Long: 11.9°E, Diam: 45 km, Depth: 1.25 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2034 Rükl: 34] |
Table of Contents
[#Tempel Tempel]
[#Tempel-Images Images]
[#Tempel-Maps Maps]
[#Tempel-Description Description]
[#Tempel-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Tempel-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Tempel-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Tempel-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Tempel-Bibliography Bibliography]
Lunar Orbiter IV (generated by USGS Web Map Service from photographic mosaic) The strong shadow on the left comes from the similarly sized, but much fresher, crater [/Agrippa Agrippa]. The larger of the two relatively faint depressions just east of the point where the rims of the larger craters meet on the north is 6-km [/Agrippa Agrippa] F. None of the other features in this view are named.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- For orbital Apollo Fairchild camera photographs of Tempel, see page Agrippa, because Tempel's location is immediately eastward of Agrippa (touching Agrippa's eastern part).- DannyCaes DannyCaes Sep 25, 2010
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 60D4) LAC map Geologic map LM map AIC map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 1.25 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 1.25 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel (December 4, 1821 - March 16, 1889), a German astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of comets, discovering or co-discovering 21 in all, including Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, now known to be the parent body of the Leonid meteor shower, and 9P/Tempel, the target of the NASA probe Deep Impact in 2005. Other periodic comets that bear his name include 10P/Tempel and 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR.
- According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 226), this name was introduced by [/Krieger Krieger] and [/K%C3%B6nig König].
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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