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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Simpelius LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Simpelius%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images]<br /> <br /> | [http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Simpelius LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Simpelius%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images]<br /> <br /> | ||
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| − | ''([http://the-moon.us/wiki/IAU% | + | ''([http://the-moon.us/wiki/IAU%20directions IAU Directions])'' SIMPELIUS.--Another grand circumvallation, almost as large as [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Pentland Pentland], but unfortunately much foreshortened. One of its peaks on the W. rises to a height of more than 12,000 feet above the floor, on which there is a small central mountain. Between Simpelius and [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Pentland Pentland] are several ring- plains, most of which appear to have been squeezed and deformed into abnormal shapes.<br /> <br /> |
==Description: Wikipedia== | ==Description: Wikipedia== | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpelius_(crater) Simpelius]<br /> <br /> | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpelius_(crater) Simpelius]<br /> <br /> | ||
==Additional Information== | ==Additional Information== | ||
| − | * Depth data from [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Kurt%20Fisher% | + | * Depth data from [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Kurt%20Fisher%20Crater%20Depths Kurt Fisher database] |
** Westfall, 2000: 5.78 km | ** Westfall, 2000: 5.78 km | ||
** Cherrington, 1969: 3.29 km | ** Cherrington, 1969: 3.29 km | ||
Latest revision as of 03:17, 16 April 2018
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Simpelius
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Lat: 73.0°S, Long: 15.2°E, Diam: 70 km, Depth: 5.78 km, Rükl: 73 |
Images
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Maps
(LAC zone 138D1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Elger
(IAU Directions) SIMPELIUS.--Another grand circumvallation, almost as large as Pentland, but unfortunately much foreshortened. One of its peaks on the W. rises to a height of more than 12,000 feet above the floor, on which there is a small central mountain. Between Simpelius and Pentland are several ring- plains, most of which appear to have been squeezed and deformed into abnormal shapes.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 5.78 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 3.29 km
- According to LTVT, the longest shadows (from the prominence on the east rim in LO-IV-094H) correspond to height differences of 5,300 m. - Jim Mosher
- Simpelius J and the small crater on rim of Simpelius B are radar bright at 70 cm.
- The bowl-shaped high albedo craters Simpelius J and Schomberger G (at approximately 76°S/ 8°E) are interesting targets during Full Moon, because they act like "pointers" to the approximate location of the Moon's South Pole. - DannyCaes Sep 18, 2010
- Schomberger G is called "Simpelius G" on LAC 137 (page 275) of the Clementine Atlas. - DannyCaes Oct 12, 2012
Nomenclature
- Named for Hugh Sempill (or Semple) (in Latin, Hugo Simpelius or Sempilius) (lived from between 1589 and 1596 to 1654), a Scottish Jesuit mathematician and linguist. He served as procurator of the Royal Scots College in Madrid (now located in Salamanca).
- Crater Simpelius D was called Einstein by Hugh Percy Wilkins and Patrick Moore, but the IAU decided to use that name for a crater on the moon's west-northwestern limb. According to Wilkins and Moore's book, Einstein was a great scientist (1879-1955). - DannyCaes
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