Gibbs
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Gibbs
(formerly [/Hecataeus Hecataeus] D)
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Lat: 18.4°S, Long: 84.3°E, Diam: 76 km, Depth: 3.96 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2060 Rükl: 60] |
Table of Contents
[#Gibbs Gibbs]
[#Gibbs-Images Images]
[#Gibbs-Maps Maps]
[#Gibbs-Description Description]
[#Gibbs-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Gibbs-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Gibbs-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Gibbs-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Gibbs-LROC Articles LROC Articles]
[#Gibbs-Bibliography Bibliography]
AS15-M-2373
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 99B1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 3.96 km
- The bright ray-crater on the northeast rim of Gibbs is described (and depicted as an extreme close-up photograph!!!) in NASA SP-362, APOLLO OVER THE MOON; A VIEW FROM ORBIT, Chapter 5: Craters (Part 2), Figure 116. This appears to be an oblique impact on [/Clementine Clementine] images but the high res view shows the rays are controlled by topography, not impact angle.
Nomenclature
- Named for Josiah Willard Gibbs (February 11, 1839 – April 28, 1903), a preeminent American mathematical-engineer, theoretical physicist, and chemist noted for his famed 1876 publication of On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances, a graphical analysis of multi-phase chemical systems, which laid the basis for a large part of modern-day science. Being one of the greatest American scientists of the nineteenth century, he devised much of the theoretical foundation for chemical thermodynamics as well as physical chemistry. As a mathematician, he was an inventor of vector analysis. He spent his entire career at Yale, which awarded him the first American Ph.D. in engineering in 1863.
- Name given to a formerly [/lettered%20crater lettered crater] by Arthur and Whitaker in [/Rectified%20Lunar%20Atlas Rectified Lunar Atlas] (1963) and [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIIB approved by IAU] in 1964 ([/Whitaker Whitaker], 1999, p. 234).
- Gibby (D.Caes's nickname for the officially unnamed high-albedo ray craterlet on the rim of Gibbs) (inspired by Mark Robinson's Chappy on the rim of Chaplygin).
LPOD Articles
LROC Articles
Branched Impact Melts (the high-albedo ray craterlet on the rim of Gibbs).
Bibliography
Harold Hill. [/A%20Portfolio%20of%20Lunar%20Drawings A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings], pages 226, 227 (observations of the averted hemisphere)(see also: [/Curie Curie]).
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