Epimenides

Epimenides

Lat: 40.9°S, Long: 30.2°W, Diam: 27 km, Depth: 2.37 km, Rükl: 63

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[#Epimenides Epimenides]

[#Epimenides-Images Images]

[#Epimenides-Maps Maps]

[#Epimenides-Description Description]

[#Epimenides-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]

[#Epimenides-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Epimenides-Clair-Obscur phenomenon Clair-Obscur phenomenon]

[#Epimenides-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Epimenides-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Epimenides-Bibliography Bibliography]

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Images

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Maps

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Description

Description: Wikipedia

Epimenides

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
 

• Westfall, 2000: 2.37 km
• Viscardy, 1985: 2 km

• Satellite crater Epimenides A is on the ALPO list of banded craters

Clair-Obscur phenomenon

When the morning terminator runs at 24° west, one could observe a curious clair-obscur effect between Epimenides and Lacus Timoris.
  It (the clair-obscur effect) looks like an equilateral triangle made of three bright starlike dots. - DannyCaes DannyCaes Nov 18, 2007
 
 

Nomenclature

Epimenides of Knossos (Crete) was a semi-mythical 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet, who is said to have fallen asleep for fifty-seven years in a Cretian cave sacred to Zeus, after which he reportedly awoke with the gift of prophecy.

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Bibliography

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