Wurzelbauer

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Wurzelbauer

Lat: 33.9°S, Long: 15.9°W, Diam: 88 km, Depth: 2.77 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2064 Rükl: 64]

Table of Contents

[#Wurzelbauer Wurzelbauer]
[#Wurzelbauer-Images Images]
[#Wurzelbauer-Maps Maps]
[#Wurzelbauer-Description Description]
[#Wurzelbauer-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Wurzelbauer-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Wurzelbauer-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Wurzelbauer-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Wurzelbauer-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Wurzelbauer-Bibliography Bibliography]
external image normal_wurzelbauer_060807_05h31tu.jpg
François Emond

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 111B2) LAC map Geologic map

Description


Description: Elger

([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) WURZELBAUER.--Another irregular walled-plain, about 50 miles in diameter, on the S.W. of [/Pitatus Pitatus], with a very complex border, in connection with which, on the S.E., is a group of fine depressions, and on the S.W. a large crater. There is much detail on the very uneven floor.

Description: Wikipedia

Wurzelbauer

Additional Information

Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
  • Westfall, 2000: 2.77 km
  • Cherrington, 1969: 2.19 km

A Pareidolia is frequently observed on the floor of Wurzelbauer, looking like a face. Source: several telescopic observers of the Wurzelbauer region.

Nomenclature

  • Johann Philipp von Wurzelbauer (1651-1725) was a German astronomer. He first published a work concerning his observations on the great comet of 1680. After 1682, Wurzelbauer owned his own astronomical observatory and instruments, and observed the transit of Mercury, solar eclipses, and worked out the geographical latitude of his native city.
  • According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 218), this name was introduced by [/Schr%C3%B6ter Schröter].
  • Crater Wurzelbauer D was called Hauet by Hugh Percy Wilkins and Patrick Moore, but the I.A.U. did not accept that name.
  • Hauet was a French selenographer (1878-1933).


LPOD Articles

One or Two Craters D (Wurzelbauer D)

Bibliography

Wurzelbauer D ("Hauet"): [/Wilkins%20and%20Moore THE MOON] by H.P.Wilkins and P.Moore.


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