Stevinus
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Stevinus
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Lat: 32.49°S, Long: 54.12°E, Diam: 71.54 km, Depth: 3.82 km, Rükl: 69, Copernican |
Left: LROC WAC image – found in the WAC mosaic here.
Right: Eric Soucy, Stevinus and Furnerius, with the pair of high-albedo raycraters Furnerius A and Stevinus A, sometimes called the Headlights.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Lunar Orbiter 5's Frame 040 shows a close-up of Stevinus, captured near the lower-left corner of the photograph.- DannyCaes Mar 23, 2008
Maps
(LAC zone 114B2) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Elger
(IAU Directions) STEVINUS.--A somewhat larger ring-plain, S. of Snellius, with a border rising on the S. to more than 11,000 feet above a dark interior, which includes a bright central mountain.
Wikipedia
Additional Information
- IAU page: Stevinus
- Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 3.82 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 4.69 km
- The Japanese spacecraft Hiten - Hagoromo crash-landed southeast of Stevinus (34.3° South/ 55.6° East, April 10 - 1993) and reportedly caused a brief effect visible in the infrared during the daytime. Svenhem (2006) !st International Conference on Impact Cratering in the Solar Syste. ESTEC, Noordwijk.
- Radar bright at 70 cm.
- Central peak composition: GNTA2, AG, AGN & AN (Tompkins & Pieters, 1999)
- Stevinus and its satellite crater Stevinus A are on the ALPO list of bright ray craters, but... only Stevinus A is rayed! (C.Wood).
- Central peak height
- Sekiguchi, 1972: 2.4 km measured from the west. A small mound to the SW of the central peak measures 1.2 km - fatastronomer
- TSI = 30, CPI = 25, FI = 20; MI =75 Smith and Hartnell, 1973
Nomenclature
- Simon Stevin (1548/49 – 1620) was a Flemish mathematician and engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. He also translated various mathematical terms into Dutch, making it the only European language in which the word for mathematics ('wiskunde') was not derived from Greek (via Latin).
The Headlights
- The pair of high-albedo raycraters Stevinus A and Furnerius A are sometimes called the Headlights, see page 20 in the 21st Century Atlas of the Moon by Charles Wood and Maurice Collins.
LROC Articles
- Dry Debris or Liquid Flow? (In Stevinus A)
- Pancakes in a Melt Pond
LPOD Articles
Lettered craters
Graphic LAC Nos’ No. 98 and No. 114. Excerpt from the USGS Digital Atlas of the Moon.
Bibliography
- Hill, Harold. 1991. A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings., pages 232, 233.
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