Harding

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Harding

Lat: 43.53°N, Long: 71.62°W, Diam: 22.57 km, Depth: 2.1 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%208 Rükl: 8]

Table of Contents

[#Harding Harding]
[#Harding-Images Images]
[#Harding-Maps Maps]
[#Harding-Description Description]
[#Harding-Description-Elger Elger]
[#Harding-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]
[#Harding-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Harding-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Harding-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Harding-Bibliography Bibliography]
external image normal_Harding_LO-IV-183H_LTVT.JPG
LO-IV-183H

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 22B4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Elger

([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) HARDING.--A small ring-plain E. of [/Gerard Gerard], remarkable for the peculiar form of its shadow at sunrise, and for the ridges in its vicinity.

Wikipedia

Harding

Additional Information

  • IAU page: Harding
  • Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
    • Westfall, 2000: 2.1 km
  • From the shadows in LO-IV-183H, Harding is at least 1800 m deep.
  • Satellite crater Harding A is on the [/ALPO%20list%20of%20bright%20ray%20craters ALPO list of bright ray craters].
  • TSI = 25, CPI = 20, FI = 20; MI =65 [/Smith%20and%20Sanchez%2C%201973 Smith and Sanchez, 1973]
  • Strange looking crater with "northeastern double rim" SSW of Harding (see: http://bit.ly/2w267sx ). A possible case of CC? (Concentric Craters). - DannyCaes DannyCaes Sep 17, 2017


Nomenclature

  • Named for Karl Ludwig Harding(1765-1834), a German astronomer. Harding began his career as an assistant to selenographer [/Johann%20Schr%C3%B6ter Johann Schröter], later working for [/Gauss Gauss] and eventually publishing a catalog of 120,000 stars. He also discovered the third known asteroid, Juno.
  • According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 219), this name was introduced by [/M%C3%A4dler Mädler].


LPOD Articles

Sheet 8

Bibliography



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