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[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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| − | ''([[IAU% | + | ''([[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% | + | * 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">- | + | ** <nowiki>[[Sekiguchi, 1972]: 1.3 km* 1.3 km peak immediately to the east of the central peak </nowiki><span class="membersnap">- fatastronomer</span>** |
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==Nomenclature== | ==Nomenclature== | ||
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Latest revision as of 21:39, 16 April 2018
Contents
Scoresby
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Lat: 77.7°N, Long: 14.1°E, Diam: 55 km, Depth: 4.1 km, Rükl: 4, Eratosthenian |
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
Additional Information
- Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 4.1 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 2.4 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 3.59 km
- Central peak composition: GNTA1 (Tompkins & Pieters, 1999)
- Central peak height
- [[Sekiguchi, 1972]: 1.3 km* 1.3 km peak immediately to the east of the central peak - fatastronomer**
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).
