Mare Novum
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Mare Novum
(discontinued [/IAU IAU] name)Table of Contents
[#Mare Novum Mare Novum]
[#Mare Novum-Images Images]
[#Mare Novum-Maps Maps]
[#Mare Novum-Description Description]
[#Mare Novum-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Mare Novum-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Mare Novum-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Mare Novum-Bibliography Bibliography]
| Lat: 25.7°N, Long: 90°E, Diameter: km, Depth: km, Rukl: Libration Zone III (Joliot) |
Clementine The IAU name referred to the [/mare mare] patches on the floor of this crater, now known as [/Joliot Joliot].
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 46A4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Additional Information
Nomenclature
- This discontinued IAU name is Latin for the "New Sea"
- Mare Novum was catalog entry 140a in Blagg and Müller's [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations], where the "a" means it is an interpolated number that did not appear in the [/Collated%20List Collated List]. The feature is described as a mare "at limb" with a latitude equivalent to 25.7°N.
- The name was attributed to Franz.
- In [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIB 1961] the IAU adopted the new name Joliot-Curie for a dark limb feature photographed by [/Lunar%20Missions Luna-3], even though some scientists suspected it was the same as the IAU's earlier Mare Novum.
- As part of the changes introduced in the [/Rectified%20Lunar%20Atlas Rectified Lunar Atlas] and [/System%20of%20Lunar%20Craters System of Lunar Craters] accepted by the IAU in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIIB 1964], Arthur suggested redefining the name Joliot-Curie (presently [/Joliot Joliot]) to mean the 143 km diameter crater containing Luna-3's Joliot-Curie and the IAU's former Mare Novum on its floor.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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