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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=367&fullsize=1 [[Image:normal_Scoresby-Clementine.jpg|external image normal_Scoresby-Clementine.jpg]]]<br /> ''[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-367 Clementine]''<br /> <br />  
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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=367&fullsize=1 [[Image:Normal_Scoresby-Clementine.jpg|external image normal_Scoresby-Clementine.jpg]]]<br /> ''[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-367 Clementine]''<br /> <br />  
 
==Images==
 
==Images==
 
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Scoresby LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Scoresby%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images]<br /> <br />  
 
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Scoresby LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Scoresby%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images]<br /> <br />  
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==Description: Elger==
 
==Description: Elger==
''([[IAU%20Directions|IAU Directions]])'' SCORESBY.--A much fore-shortened deep ring-plain, 36 miles in diameter, between [[Barrow|Barrow]] and the limb. It has a central mountain with two peaks, which are very difficult to detect.<br /> <br />  
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''([[IAU%20directions|IAU Directions]])'' SCORESBY.--A much fore-shortened deep ring-plain, 36 miles in diameter, between [[Barrow|Barrow]] and the limb. It has a central mountain with two peaks, which are very difficult to detect.<br /> <br />  
 
==Description: Wikipedia==
 
==Description: Wikipedia==
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoresby_(crater) Scoresby]<br /> <br />  
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoresby_(crater) Scoresby]<br /> <br />  
 
==Additional Information==
 
==Additional Information==
* Depth data from [[Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths|Kurt Fisher database]]
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* Depth data from [[Kurt%20Fisher%20Crater%20Depths|Kurt Fisher database]]
 
** Westfall, 2000: 4.1 km
 
** Westfall, 2000: 4.1 km
 
** Viscardy, 1985: 2.4 km
 
** Viscardy, 1985: 2.4 km
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* [[Central%20peak%20composition|Central peak composition]]: GNTA1 ([[Tompkins%20%26%20Pieters%2C%201999|Tompkins & Pieters, 1999]])
 
* [[Central%20peak%20composition|Central peak composition]]: GNTA1 ([[Tompkins%20%26%20Pieters%2C%201999|Tompkins & Pieters, 1999]])
 
* Central peak height
 
* Central peak height
** <nowiki>[[Sekiguchi, 1972]: 1.3 km* 1.3 km peak immediately to the east of the central peak </nowiki><span class="membersnap">- [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/fatastronomer [[Image:fatastronomer-lg.jpg|16px|fatastronomer]]] [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/fatastronomer fatastronomer]</span>**
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** <nowiki>[[Sekiguchi, 1972]: 1.3 km* 1.3 km peak immediately to the east of the central peak </nowiki><span class="membersnap">- [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/fatastronomer [[Image:Fatastronomer-lg.jpg|16px|fatastronomer]]] [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/fatastronomer fatastronomer]</span>**
 
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==Nomenclature==
 
==Nomenclature==

Revision as of 03:16, 16 April 2018

Scoresby

Lat: 77.7°N, Long: 14.1°E, Diam: 55 km, Depth: 4.1 km, Rükl: 4, Eratosthenian

external image normal_Scoresby-Clementine.jpg
Clementine

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images

Maps

(LAC zone 4A1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Elger

(IAU Directions) SCORESBY.--A much fore-shortened deep ring-plain, 36 miles in diameter, between Barrow and the limb. It has a central mountain with two peaks, which are very difficult to detect.

Description: Wikipedia

Scoresby

Additional Information


Nomenclature

William Scoresby (5 October 1789 - 21 March 1857) was an English Arctic explorer, scientist and divine.

Scoresby A was called Sacco by Wilkins and Paluzie-Borrell, but the IAU did not accept that name.

  • Sacco was a contemporary Spanish astronomer.


LPOD Articles

Not Santa's Pole.
Over the Pole

Bibliography

  • Scoresby A (Sacco): Wilkins and Moore.
  • By William Scoresby: -A Description of Some Appearances of Remarkable Rainbows- (Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1827), see Rare Halos, Mirages, Anomalous Rainbows, and related electromagnetic phenomena (William R. Corliss, The Sourcebook Project, 1984).