Russell

Russell

(formerly the northern part of Otto [/Struve Struve])

Table of Contents

[#Russell Russell]

[#Russell-Images Images]

[#Russell-Maps Maps]

[#Russell-Description Description]

[#Russell-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]

[#Russell-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Russell-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Russell-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Russell-Bibliography Bibliography]

[#Russell-Henry Norris Russell in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss) Henry Norris Russell in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)]

Lat: 26.48°N, Long: 75.52°W, Diam: 103.37 km, Depth: 0.85 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2017 Rükl: 17]

LO-IV-174H

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images

• Zond 7 (Russell and environs, evening light).

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 37B4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description

Wikipedia

Russell

Additional Information

• IAU page: Russell
• Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
  • Westfall, 2000: 0.85 km
  • Cherrington, 1969: 1 km

Nomenclature

• The IAU name currently honors two men:
  • Henry Norris Russell (October 25, 1877 – February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar [/Hertzsprung Hertzsprung], developed the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (1910). He co-wrote an influential two-volume textbook in 1927 with Raymond Smith [/Dugan Dugan] and John Quincy [/Stewart Stewart]. This became the standard astronomy textbook for about two decades.
  • John Russell (March 29, 1745 – April 20, 1806) was an English painter and selenographer renowned for his portrait work in oils and pastels, and as a writer and teacher of painting techniques. Russell was also interested in astronomy (he was a friend of Sir William [/Herschel Herschel]) and in mathematics. He painted three of the best views ever of the Moon in 1795 and created a marvelous lunar globe.
    • Collection of moon drawings by Russell exhibited at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford from 24 May - 16 September 2007 (additional images including Russell's globe and Moon map).
    • Russell's globe was displayed at a 2009 exhibit in Florence, along with some of the drawings used to create it.
• Name originally proposed by [/Wilkins%20and%20Moore Wilkins and Moore] for a small crater within "Paluzie"; shifted to a different crater in [/Rectified%20Lunar%20Atlas Rectified Lunar Atlas] (1963) and approved by IAU in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIIB 1964] ([/Whitaker Whitaker], 1999, p. 235).
• The name was originally meant to honor only Henry, but in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XIVB 1970] a decision was made to add John to the list of honorees, and his biographical information was added to [/Menzel%2C%201971#RUSSELL Menzel, 1971 ].
• There seems to have been lots of other Russells in astronomy, such as Henry Chamberlain Russell (1836-1907, Australian astronomer and meteorologist).- DannyCaes DannyCaes Apr 16, 2011
• Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist. B.Russell is mentioned in Carl Sagan's COSMOS.- DannyCaes DannyCaes Mar 21, 2015

LPOD Articles

Astrophysicists Graveyard.

Bibliography

• Hill, Harold. 1991. [/Hill%2C%201991 A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings]., pages 78, 79.

Henry Norris Russell in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)

- In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
 

• Page 95: Venus as a Luminous Ring (Knowledge, 1907).
• Page 515: Observations of an Unidentified Object seen near the Sun on Sunday, August 7, 1921 (W.W.Campbell, Astronomical Society of the Pacific; Publications, 1921).
• Page 518: The Bright Object near the Sun (Nature, 1921).

- Another Russell (or Russells) is (or are) mentioned in :

• Page 109: A Review of some ALPO Venus studies (Dale P. Cruikshank, Strolling Astronomer, 1963).
• Page 154: Terrestrial Satellites: some direct and indirect evidence (John P. Bagby, Icarus, 1969).
• Page 197: On the Obscuration of the Lunar Crater Linne (W.R.Birt, American Journal of Science, 1867).

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