Eckert

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Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium)

Lat: 17.27°N, Long: 58.36°E, Diam: 2.62 km, Depth: 0.43 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2026 Rükl: 26]

Table of Contents

[#Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium) Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium)]
[#Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium)-Images Images]
[#Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium)-Maps Maps]
[#Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium)-Description Description]
[#Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium)-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]
[#Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium)-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium)-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium)-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Eckert (very near the centre of Mare Crisium)-Bibliography Bibliography]
external image normal_Eckert_LO-IV-191H_LTVT.JPG
LO-IV-191H
Eckert (the largest one of the depicted craterlets) is an inconspicuous tiny bowl-shaped crater, but... it marks the centre of the basin Mare Crisium.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

  • The tiny crater Eckert was also captured on Apollo 17's orbital ITEK-panoramic frames AS17-P-2235 and AS17-P-2240. In both frames, Eckert's location near or at the frames's centres.
    • Research: Danny Caes


Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 44D3) LAC map Geologic map LTO map

Description


Wikipedia

Eckert

Additional Information

  • IAU page: Eckert
  • Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
    • Westfall, 2000: 0.43 km


Nomenclature

  • Named for Wallace John Eckert (1902-1971), an American astronomer. Eckert was a student of [/Brown E. W. Brown]. A long-time Columbia University professor and IBM executive and a key player in the development of electronic computers, he is credited with applying punch-card computing techniques to the computation of planetary orbits. The lunar positions determined by his refinement of Brown's methods were the best of their day.
  • Eckert, for this feature, appears in the list of approved names published in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB IAU Transactions XVB] (1973). The honoree is not identified. The association of the name with the present honoree is based on listings in early versions of the [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer IAU Planetary Gazetteer], but biographical information was unofficially reported in [/Ashbrook%2C%201974 Ashbrook, 1974].
  • The name Eckert was introduced on LTO-44D3 (April 1974), for which it served as the chart title. Prior to that this crater was unnamed. - JimMosher JimMosher


LPOD Articles


Bibliography


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