Sylvester-Nansen Basin

Sylvester-Nansen Basin

(unofficial name)

Table of Contents

[#Sylvester-Nansen Basin Sylvester-Nansen Basin]

[#Sylvester-Nansen Basin-Images Images]

[#Sylvester-Nansen Basin-Maps Maps]

[#Sylvester-Nansen Basin-Basin Classification Basin Classification]

[#Sylvester-Nansen Basin-Description Description]

[#Sylvester-Nansen Basin-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Sylvester-Nansen Basin-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Sylvester-Nansen Basin-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Sylvester-Nansen Basin-Bibliography Bibliography]

Lat: 83°N, Long: 45°E, Main ring diam: 300-500 km, Depth: km, Rukl: 4

Clementine, Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from PDS Map-a-Planet remapped to north-up aerial view by LTVT. The dot is the center position and the white circle the main ring position from Chuck Wood's Impact Basin Database. Grid spacing = 10 degrees.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

(LAC zone 1D1)

Basin Classification

(description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) Impact Basin Database)
 
 

Certainty of Existence	USGS Age	Wilhelms Age Group	Ring Diameters	Mare Thickness	Mascon
Proposed			300 - 500 km

Description

Additional Information

Nomenclature

Basins filled with maria are named for the mare, and basins that were previously recognized as craters still bear the crater name. Basins located between craters have the names of the two opposite craters with a hyphen in between, in this case Sylvester and Nansen.
 
 

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

Discovery paper

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