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==Description: Elger== | ==Description: Elger== | ||
| − | ''([[IAU% | + | ''([[IAU%20directions|IAU Directions]])'' NICOLAI.--A tolerably regular ring-plain, 18 miles in diameter, S. of [[Riccius|Riccius]], with a border, rising more than 6,000 feet above a level floor, on the N. side of which Schmidt shows a minute crater. The bright plain surrounding this formation abounds in small craters; and on the E. is a number of curious enclosures, many of them overlapping.<br /> <br /> |
==Description: Wikipedia== | ==Description: Wikipedia== | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolai_(crater) Nicolai]<br /> <br /> | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolai_(crater) Nicolai]<br /> <br /> | ||
==Additional Information== | ==Additional Information== | ||
| − | Depth data from [[Kurt%20Fisher% | + | Depth data from [[Kurt%20Fisher%20Crater%20Depths|Kurt Fisher database]]<br /> |
* Westfall, 2000: 2.42 km | * Westfall, 2000: 2.42 km | ||
* Viscardy, 1985: 1.8 km | * Viscardy, 1985: 1.8 km | ||
Latest revision as of 03:07, 16 April 2018
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Nicolai
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Lat: 42.4°S, Long: 25.9°E, Diam: 42 km, Depth: 2.42 km, Rükl: 67 |
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Description
Description: Elger
(IAU Directions) NICOLAI.--A tolerably regular ring-plain, 18 miles in diameter, S. of Riccius, with a border, rising more than 6,000 feet above a level floor, on the N. side of which Schmidt shows a minute crater. The bright plain surrounding this formation abounds in small craters; and on the E. is a number of curious enclosures, many of them overlapping.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 2.42 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 1.8 km
- Satellite craters Nicolai E and G are on the ALPO list of bright ray craters.
Nomenclature
Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried; German astronomer (1793-1846).
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