Boussingault

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Boussingault

Lat: 70.2°S, Long: 54.6°E, Diam: 142 km, Depth: 5.64 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2075 Rükl: 75]

Table of Contents

[#Boussingault Boussingault]
[#Boussingault-Images Images]
[#Boussingault-Maps Maps]
[#Boussingault-Description Description]
[#Boussingault-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Boussingault-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Boussingault-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Boussingault-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Boussingault-Bibliography Bibliography]
external image normal_Boussingault_LO-IV-178H_LTVT.JPG
LO-IV-178H

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 138B3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Wikipedia

Boussingault

Additional Information

Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
  • Westfall, 2000: 5.64 km
  • Viscardy, 1985: 3.2 km
  • Cherrington, 1969: 2.89 km
  • Satellite crater Boussingault D is on the [/ALPO%20list%20of%20banded%20craters ALPO list of banded craters]
  • Boussingault is an eye-catcher on the fantastic 7-meter diameter moonglobe created by artist Luke Jerram (MUSEUM OF THE MOON). I wonder how many of the perplexed art-lovers and occasional visitors (and also astronomers and scientists) could recognize this crater and its name without looking at a lunar atlas...- DannyCaes DannyCaes Feb 1, 2018


Nomenclature

Jean Baptiste Dieudonne; French chemist (1802-1887).

LPOD Articles

Not Quite a Bulls-eye
S by SE

Bibliography

A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings (Harold Hill), pages 192, 193.


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