Brewster
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Brewster
(formerly [/R%C3%B6mer Römer] L)
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Lat: 23.3°N, Long: 34.7°E, Diam: 10 km, Depth: 2.34 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2025 Rükl: 25] |
Table of Contents
[#Brewster Brewster]
[#Brewster-Images Images]
[#Brewster-Maps Maps]
[#Brewster-Description Description]
[#Brewster-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Brewster-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Brewster-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Brewster-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Brewster-Bibliography Bibliography]
[#Brewster-Sir David Brewster in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss) Sir David Brewster in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)]
IV073-h3 Brewster is the circular crater in the upper left. The larger circular crater in the lower right is [/Franck Franck]. The smaller craters are not named, but the large enclosures partially visible along the top margin are [/R%C3%B6mer Römer] R (upper left) and [/R%C3%B6mer Römer] T (upper right); and Brewster and [/Franck Franck] are themselves in [/Sinus%20Amoris Sinus Amoris].
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- AS15-87-11706 is a magnificent orbital close-up of Brewster, made during the mission of Apollo 15 in the summer of 1971. Note the radial streaks on the crater's inner slopes! - DannyCaes DannyCaes Dec 27, 2007
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 43D1) LAC map Geologic map LTO map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 2.34 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 2.13 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Sir David Brewster, FRS, (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868), a Scottish scientist, optician, inventor and writer. His important areas of study include: the laws of polarization by reflection and refraction, and other quantitative laws of phenomena, the discovery of the polarizing structure induced by heat and pressure and experiments on the absorption of light.
- This replacement name for a formerly [/lettered%20crater lettered crater] was provisionally introduced on LTO-43D1. It was among 120 names from the [/LTO LTO]'s approved by the [/IAU IAU] in 1976 ([/IAU%20Transactions%20XVIB IAU Transactions XVIB]). - JimMosher JimMosher
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Sir David Brewster in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)
- In Rare Halos, Mirages, Anomalous Rainbows, and related electromagnetic phenomena (1984) :
- GEB10-R1: On Fog-Rings Observed in America (David Brewster, Report of the British Association, 1845).
- GEB16-R2: On a Remarkable Rainbow Observed by Mr.Bowman (David Brewster, Report of the British Association, 1840).
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