Ewen Whitaker

Ewen Whitaker

(Lunar scientist)

Table of Contents

[#Ewen Whitaker Ewen Whitaker]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Lunar Work Lunar Work]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Where & When Where & When]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information Personal Information]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Photo Photo]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Video Video]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Ewen Whitaker and Surveyor 3 Ewen Whitaker and Surveyor 3]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Birth & Death Birth & Death]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Education Education]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Personal Information-Current Contact Information/Websites Current Contact Information/Websites]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Publications Publications]

[#Ewen Whitaker-Additional Information Additional Information]

Lunar Work

A founding member of the [/LPL Lunar and Planetary Laboratory] at the University of Arizona, this British-born American scientist was one of the leading experts on lunar nomenclature. Formerly Director of the Lunar Section of the [/BAA BAA] and 1982 recipient of its Walter Goodacre Medal. He was best known for his popular 1999 [/Whitaker history] on lunar mapping, and he personally assigned all the current IAU-approved [/satellite%20feature letter designations] for farside craters.
 
 

Where & When

See Wikipedia entry.
 
 

Personal Information

Photo

from [/LPL Whitaker, 1985] p. 24 (see also p.26)

• Whitaker & Kuiper LPOD

Video

Apollo Program Veterans Revisit Moon Landing -- Whitaker is second of three interviewees

Ewen Whitaker and Surveyor 3

Thanks to Ewen Whitaker, astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean (Apollo 12) landed their Lunar Module Intrepid very near the landingsite of Surveyor 3 at the Surveyor crater which was part of the Snowman (a cluster of small craters more-or-less snowman shaped). Ewen Whitaker discovered the pinpoint spot of Surveyor 3 on Lunar Orbiter photographs. See also the page Apollo 12 Site.
 
 

Birth & Death

22 June 1922 - 11 October 2016 (aged 94).
 
 

Education

Current Contact Information/Websites

Retired. Lives in Tuscon, Arizona.
 
 

Publications

• Coauthor: [/Photographic%20Lunar%20Atlas Photographic Lunar Atlas] (1960)
• Coauthor: [/Orthographic%20Atlas%20of%20the%20Moon Orthographic Atlas of the Moon] (1960)
• Coauthor: [/Rectified%20Lunar%20Atlas Rectified Lunar Atlas] (1963)
• Coauthor: [/Consolidated%20Lunar%20Atlas Consolidated Lunar Atlas] (1967)
• Coauthor: [/NASA%20SP-241 Atlas and Gazetteer of the Near Side of the Moon] (1971)
• Coauthor: [/NASA%20RP-1097 NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature] (1982)
• Author: [/LPL The University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory: Its founding and early years] (1985, contains considerable biographical information)
• Author: [/Whitaker Mapping and Naming the Moon] (1999)

Additional Information

• Wikipedia entry
• Ewen's [/Invalid%20Names list of Invalid Names] on NASA charts
• Photographs of Ewen Whitaker and other lunar scientists in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, February 1969, Pages 212 and 213 (- Moon men -).

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