Rima Ptolemaeus
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Rima Ptolemaeus
(discontinued(?) [/IAU IAU] name)
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Lat: 9.2°S, Long: 1.8°W, Length: 153 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2044 Rükl 44] |
Table of Contents
[#Rima Ptolemaeus Rima Ptolemaeus]
[#Rima Ptolemaeus-Images Images]
[#Rima Ptolemaeus-Maps Maps]
[#Rima Ptolemaeus-Description Description]
[#Rima Ptolemaeus-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Rima Ptolemaeus-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Rima Ptolemaeus-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Rima Ptolemaeus-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-108H Rima Ptolemaeus was the name used to describe the row of depressions on the western floor of [/Ptolemaeus Ptolemaeus], the large crater filling the frame on the right. It started to the southwest of [/Ptolemaeus Ptolemaeus] L and terminated at the deep gouge-like crater to the east of [/Ptolemaeus Ptolemaeus] E.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 77D2) LAC map Geologic map LM map LTO map
Description
Additional Information
- The position and length listed in the [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer IAU Planetary Gazetteer] (and repeated in the title line of this page), seem a bit odd. The Rima Ptolemaeus I of the [/System%20of%20Lunar%20Craters System of Lunar Craters] was 40-50 km long, centered at 9.6°S, Long: 4.0°W
Nomenclature
- This feature is catalog entry 2984 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List], where it is described as [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison]'s Ptolemäus Phi.
- It entered the original [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] as Ptolemaeus Ir, named after the crater within which it lies, [/Ptolemaeus Ptolemaeus].
- The name was Latinized to Rima Ptolemaeus I in the [/System%20of%20Lunar%20Craters System of Lunar Craters], where it is plotted on the [/Quad%20Maps Quad Maps].
- It was not plotted on LAC 77 (1963), and there's nothing of it to see on Chart 69 in the Times Atlas of the Moon.
- The name Rima Ptolemaeus was apparently eliminated during the preparation of the [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer IAU Planetary Gazetteer], where it is listed as "a [/Catena Catena], not a [/Rima Rima]" with a drop date of "1985". No record of the name actually having been dropped exists in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIXB IAU Transactions XIXB], the volume for 1985.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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