Al-Khwarizmi-King

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Al-Khwarizmi-King Basin

(unofficial name)

Lat: 1°N, Long: 112°E, Main ring diam: 590 km, Depth: km, Rukl: (farside)
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Top: Annotated Clementine image from Map-A-Planet.
Bottom: Clementine LIDAR data: altitude-coded shaded relief map

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Maps

(LAC zone 65D4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Basin Classification

(description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) Impact Basin Database)
Certainty of Existence
USGS Age
Wilhelms Age Group
Ring Diameters
Mare Thickness
Mascon
Uncertain
pre-Nectarian
2
250, 590 km



Description


Additional Information

  • Discovered by El-Baz & Wilhelms (1973, 1977)


Nomenclature

  • Basins filled with maria are named for the mare, and basins that were previously recognized as craters still bear the crater name. Basins located between craters have the names of the two opposite craters with a hyphen in between, in this case Al-Khwarizmi and King.
  • The name Al-Khwarizmi was originally proposed by El-Baz (1973) to signify the entire basin, but adopted by the IAU as the name for a crater within it. El-Baz suspected the existence of a 1000-km diameter ring as well as the two mentioned above.


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