Baillaud

Lat: 74.6°N, Long: 37.5°E, Diam: 89 km, Depth: 1.76 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%205 Rükl: 5], [/Stratigraphy pre-Nectarian?]

Named for (Édouard) Benjamin Baillaud (February 14, 1848 – July 8, 1934), a French astronomer. He specialized in celestial mechanics, in particular the motions of the satellites of Saturn. He served as Director of the Paris Observatory and as a President of the [/IAU IAU]. According to the [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations%20Text introductory material] to [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations], Baillaud was a member of the international committee tasked with consolidating lunar nomenclature preceding the Commission formed for that purpose by the [/IAU IAU]. He received the Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1923, and extensive links to information about him can be found on that site.
This feature was Catalog number 998 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List] where it is noted that it was called [/Euctemon Euctemon] a in [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison, 1876]. The other two authorities did not name it.
In the original IAU nomenclature of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] (1935) the name was changed to Baillaud, adopting a proposal by [/Felix%20Chemla%20Lam%C3%A8ch Lamèch].

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