Schwarzschild
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Schwarzschild
| Lat: 70.1°N, Long: 121.2°E, Diam: 212 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside), Nectarian |
Table of Contents
[#Schwarzschild Schwarzschild]
[#Schwarzschild-Images Images]
[#Schwarzschild-Maps Maps]
[#Schwarzschild-Description Description]
[#Schwarzschild-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Schwarzschild-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Schwarzschild-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Schwarzschild-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Schwarzschild-Bibliography Bibliography]
Clementine
Schwarzschild is an easy to recognize basin because of the two craters Schwarzschild K ("Hedin") and Schwarzschild L on the southern parts of its floor and rim.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
- Other Lunar Orbiter IV photographs of Schwarzschild (High Resolution scans from the LPI's Lunar Orbiter Photo Gallery)
- IV-116-Med.
- IV-128-Med.
- IV-140-Med (sunset terminator on Schwarzschild).
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 6D2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Listed only as a large crater in Table III of [/Hartmann%20and%20Wood%2C%201971 Hartmann and Wood, 1971], this feature was recognized as a basin with rings of 70 and 200 km diameter in Wood and Head (1976). It was also recognized as a basin in Lucchitta (1978).
Nomenclature
- Named for Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916), a German astronomer.
- Danny Caes notes that Schwarzschild K (the large crater at the southern part of Schwarzschild's rim) was labeled [/Hedin Hedin] on Antonín Rükl's 1972 [/R%C3%BCkl Maps of lunar hemispheres]. [/Hedin Hedin] was one of six nearside names that were deemed sufficiently indistinct to merit deleting the nearside names and reusing the names on the farside ([/IAU%20Transactions%20XIVB IAU Transactions XIVB], 1970). However, subsequent to the October, 1970 printing of provisional [/DMA ACIC] maps illustrating the new IAU farside nomenclature, these six nearside names were reinstated ([/Menzel%2C%201971 Menzel, 1971]), so Rükl's use of the name [/Hedin Hedin] for the farside feature was incorrect (as he notes in the booklet accompanying his maps). - JimMosher JimMosher
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
- Lucchitta, B. K. 1978. Geologic map of the north side of the Moon, US Geol. Surv. Misc. Invest. Ser., I
- Wood, C. A.; Head, J. W. 1978. Comparison of impact basins on Mercury, Mars and the moon in Lunar Science Conference, 7th, Houston, Tex., March 15-19, 1976, Proceedings. Volume 3. (A77-34651 15-91) New York, Pergamon Press, Inc., 1976, pp. 3629-3651.
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