Gauricus
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Gauricus
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Lat: 33.8°S, Long: 12.6°W, Diam: 79 km, Depth: 2.37 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2064 Rükl: 64] |
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[#Gauricus Gauricus]
[#Gauricus-Images Images]
[#Gauricus-Maps Maps]
[#Gauricus-Description Description]
[#Gauricus-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Gauricus-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Gauricus-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Gauricus-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Gauricus-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Gauricus-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-119H The shadowed ridge on the left is the east rim of 88-km [/Wurzelbauer Wurzelbauer]. There are many lettered [/satellite%20feature satellite features] of Gauricus, [/Wurzelbauer Wurzelbauer] and [/Pitatus Pitatus] in this view.
Images
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Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 112A1) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) GAURICUS.--A large walled-plain S. of [/Pitatus Pitatus], about 40 miles in diameter. The border is very irregular, and, according to Neison, consists on the W. of a precipitous cliff more than 9,000 feet high. It is surrounded by a number of large rings on the S., and has several considerable small depressions on its N. border. There is apparently no prominent detail on the floor. Schmidt shows some ridges and craterlets.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 2.37 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 2.7 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 2.71 km
Nomenclature
- Luca Gaurico (in Latin, Lucas Gauricus) (March 12, 1476 - 1558) was an Italian astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician. He studied judicial astrology, a subject which concerned the fate of man as influenced by the stars.
- This name has continued unchanged since its original usage for this feature on [/Riccioli Riccioli]'s map ([/Whitaker Whitaker], p. 212).
- Crater Gauricus A seems to have been called Granollachs by... (?). Here we have a strange mystery in lunar nomenclature. The name "Granollachs" is included on a Spanish website dedicated to Wilkins's and Paluzie-Borrell's Spanish names, but it was not included in the book [/Wilkins%20and%20Moore THE MOON] by Wilkins and Moore.
- Granollachs (Vernet Granollachs) was born in 1421 and died in 1478.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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