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* [https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15610 Wood T] was officially approved by the IAU on the 25 July 2017 <span class="membersnap">- [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/JohnMoore2 [[Image:JohnMoore2-lg.jpg|16px|JohnMoore2]]] [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/JohnMoore2 JohnMoore2]</span>
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* [https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/15610 Wood T] was officially approved by the IAU on the 25 July 2017 <span class="membersnap">- JohnMoore2</span>
 
* Named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_Wood Robert Williams Wood] (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955), an American physicist. He is probably best known for his work discrediting the phenomenon of N rays. His fields of interest included Raman spectroscopy, field emission, optics, and the manufacture of diffraction gratings. The optical effect belonging to diffraction grating known as Wood's anomaly is named after him. In lunar studies he is noted for his suggestion that surface composition might be inferred by color studies; and his 1910 discovery that a portion of the [[Aristarchus%20Plateau|Aristarchus Plateau]] was dark in the ultraviolet (aka '''''Wood's Spot''''').
 
* Named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_Wood Robert Williams Wood] (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955), an American physicist. He is probably best known for his work discrediting the phenomenon of N rays. His fields of interest included Raman spectroscopy, field emission, optics, and the manufacture of diffraction gratings. The optical effect belonging to diffraction grating known as Wood's anomaly is named after him. In lunar studies he is noted for his suggestion that surface composition might be inferred by color studies; and his 1910 discovery that a portion of the [[Aristarchus%20Plateau|Aristarchus Plateau]] was dark in the ultraviolet (aka '''''Wood's Spot''''').
 
* '''Wood''' was in the long list of farside names approved by the [[IAU|IAU]] in 1970 and published in [[Menzel%2C%201971#Wood|Menzel, 1971]].
 
* '''Wood''' was in the long list of farside names approved by the [[IAU|IAU]] in 1970 and published in [[Menzel%2C%201971#Wood|Menzel, 1971]].

Latest revision as of 21:46, 16 April 2018

Wood

Lat: 43.0°N, Long: 120.8°W, Diam: 78 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside), pre-Nectarian

external image normal_wood-clem1.jpgWood.jpg
left: Clementine. right: LROC Wood sits on the NW sector of big crater Landau

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images

Maps

(LAC zone 35B4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Wikipedia

Wood

Additional Information


Nomenclature

  • Wood T was officially approved by the IAU on the 25 July 2017 - JohnMoore2
  • Named for Robert Williams Wood (May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955), an American physicist. He is probably best known for his work discrediting the phenomenon of N rays. His fields of interest included Raman spectroscopy, field emission, optics, and the manufacture of diffraction gratings. The optical effect belonging to diffraction grating known as Wood's anomaly is named after him. In lunar studies he is noted for his suggestion that surface composition might be inferred by color studies; and his 1910 discovery that a portion of the Aristarchus Plateau was dark in the ultraviolet (aka Wood's Spot).
  • Wood was in the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in Menzel, 1971.
  • Perhaps interesting to know: James Wayne Wood (1924-1990, American test-pilot and astronaut in the X-20 Dyna-Soar program).


LPOD Articles

The Lunar Crater Wood

LROC Articles

Impact Melt Pit (on the floor of the unnamed high-albedo crater at the northwestern part of the rim of Wood S).

Bibliography


R. W. Wood in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)

- In Lightning, Auroras, Nocturnal Lights, and Related Luminous Phenomena (1982) :
  • GLB1-R106: Ball Lightning (Nature, 1930).
  • GLL14-R2: Dark Lightning (Nature, 1899).

- In Rare Halos, Mirages, Anomalous Rainbows, and related electromagnetic phenomena (1984) :

  • GEL1-R19: Factors which determine the occurence of the Green Ray (Nature, 1928).