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Kimura

Lat: 57.1°S, Long: 118.4°E, Diam: 28 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

Table of Contents

[#Kimura Kimura]
[#Kimura-Images Images]
[#Kimura-Maps Maps]
[#Kimura-Description Description]
[#Kimura-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Kimura-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Kimura-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Kimura-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Kimura-Bibliography Bibliography]
external image normal_Kimura-Warped_Clementine-LTVT.JPG
Clementine The center coordinates given in the figure caption come from the most recent USGS Warped Clementine basemap, and are presumably more accurate than the slightly different "official" ones listed in the [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer IAU Planetary Gazetteer] (quoted in the title line at the top of this page).

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 130C1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Wikipedia

Kimura

Additional Information


Nomenclature

  • Named for Hisashi Kimura (1870 – September 26, 1943), a Japanese astronomer. He devoted his career to the study and measurement of variation in latitude, building upon the work of Seth Carlo [/Chandler Chandler], who discovered the Chandler wobble in the Earth's rotation axis.
  • Kimura appears in the long list of farside crater names approved by the IAU and published in [/Menzel%2C%201971#KIMURA Menzel, 1971].


LPOD Articles

Introducing Kimura

Bibliography




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