G. Bond

(Current [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU] name; original IAU name: Bond or G.P. Bond)

Lat: 32.4°N, Long: 36.2°E, Diam: 20 km, Depth: 2.78 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2015 Rükl: 15]

Named for George Phillips Bond (May 20, 1825 – February 17, 1865), an American astronomer. He was the son of [/W.%20Bond William Cranch Bond]. Some sources give his year of birth as 1826. He succeeded his father as director of Harvard College Observatory from 1859 until his death. He took the first photograph of a star in 1850 (Vega) and of a double star in 1857 (Mizar). He suggested photography could be used to measure a star's magnitude.
G.P. Bond is Entry 492 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List] (1913). It is listed as Bond (without the initials) in the text of the original [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] (1935), although the Index refers to it as "Bond (G.P.)".
The name was modified to G. Bond (or possibly Bond, G.) as a result of certain [/PLA%20Table%20III spelling changes] proposed by [/Gerard%20Kuiper Gerard Kuiper] and approved by the IAU in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIB 1961].

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