Hermite

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Hermite

Lat: 86.0°N, Long: 89.9°W, Diam: 104 km, Depth: 5.14 km, Rükl: 4, pre-Nectarian

external image normal_Hermite_LO-IV-190H.JPGHermite.jpg
left: Lunar Orbiter IV . right: LROC . At upper left border is Rozhdestvenskiy

Images

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Maps

(LAC zone 1B3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF Lunar Orbiter version

Description


Description: Wikipedia

Hermite

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
  • Westfall, 2000: 5.14 km


Nomenclature

  • Charles Hermite(December 24, 1822 – January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. In a letter to Thomas Stieltjes in 1893, Hermite famously remarked: "I turn with terror and horror from this lamentable scourge of continuous functions with no derivatives."
  • Name given by Arthur and Whitaker in Rectified Lunar Atlas (1963) and approved by IAU in 1964 (Whitaker, 1999, p234).
  • Hermite has one associated lettered crater: Hermite A. As shown in the figure above, a number of formerly unnamed small craters around it have recently been given individual IAU-approved names.


LPOD Articles

A New View of the Limb A Mystery Crater North of the Pole

Bibliography