Peters
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Peters
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Lat: 68.1°N, Long: 29.5°E, Diam: 15 km, Depth: 0.5 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%205 Rükl 5] |
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[#Peters Peters]
[#Peters-Images Images]
[#Peters-Maps Maps]
[#Peters-Description Description]
[#Peters-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Peters-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Peters-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Peters-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Peters-Bibliography Bibliography]
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Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 4D2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 0.5 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Christian August Friedrich Peters (September 7, 1806–May 8, 1880), a German astronomer and longtime editor of the Astronomische Nachrichten.
- The name Peters seems to first appear in a list of new lunar names proposed by [/Lee John Lee] and [/Birt W. R. Birt] published in MNRAS and slightly expanded in Astronomische Nachrichten.
- In neither publication is the identity of the honoree explained. Another possibility might be the nearly contemporaneous Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters (1813-1890), a prolific discoverer of minor planets, but since Birt and Lee named a nearby crater [/Moigno Moigno] (in honor of the editor of another scientific journal) C. A. F. Peters seems more likely. - JimMosher JimMosher
- This feature is Catalog number 695 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List], where the name Peters is noted as having been used in [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison, 1876], although both [/Julius%20Schmidt Julius Schmidt] and [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler] called it [/Arnold Arnold] d. Indeed, Schmidt used the name Peters (again without identifying who he was honoring) for a different feature, Catalog number 3961 (adopted by the IAU as [/Rosenberger Rosenberger] D).
- In his book, Schmidt retained his Peters complaining that he was unable to identify the British Association's Peters and [/Moigno Moigno].
- The name Peters for the current formation was adopted into the original IAU nomenclature of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations].
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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