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==Images==
 
==Images==
 
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Peirescius LPOD Photo Gallery images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Peirescius%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Peirescius Apollo Images]<br /> <br />  
 
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Peirescius LPOD Photo Gallery images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Peirescius%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Peirescius Apollo Images]<br /> <br />  
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==Additional Information==
 
==Additional Information==
 
* IAU page: [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4634 Peirescius]
 
* IAU page: [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4634 Peirescius]
* Depth data from [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
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* Depth data from [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Kurt%20Fisher%20Crater%20Depths Kurt Fisher database]
 
** Westfall, 2000: 3.68 km
 
** Westfall, 2000: 3.68 km
 
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Latest revision as of 03:09, 16 April 2018

Peirescius

Lat: 46.46°S, Long: 67.81°E, Diam: 61.53 km, Depth: 3.68 km, Rükl 69, pre-Nectarian

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LO-IV-178H

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery images Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

(LAC zone 115D3)

Description


Wikipedia

Peirescius

Additional Information


Nomenclature

  • Named for Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637), a French astronomer, archaeologist. Along with Gassendi, Peiresc commissioned one of the first and best systematic series of drawingsof the Moon, with Claude Mellan as the artist. Its primary purpose was to facilitate the accurate timing of the passage of the Earth's shadow over the Moon's features during a lunar eclipse. Unfortunately he died before the project could be brought to completion. - Jim Mosher
    • Prints of the Mellan engravings were displayed in an exhibit in Florence celebrating 400 years of the telescope.


LPOD Articles


Bibliography

Unusual brightness phenomena at Peirescius? See page 232 of Harold Hill's A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings (Cambridge, 1991).


Named Featues -- Prev: Peirce -- Next: Mons Penck