Hermite
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Hermite
Lat: 86.0°N, Long: 89.9°W, Diam: 104 km, Depth: 5.14 km, Rükl: 4, pre-Nectarian |
left: Lunar Orbiter IV . right: LROC . At upper left border is Rozhdestvenskiy
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
(LAC zone 1B3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF Lunar Orbiter version
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 5.14 km
Nomenclature
- Charles Hermite(December 24, 1822 – January 14, 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra. In a letter to Thomas Stieltjes in 1893, Hermite famously remarked: "I turn with terror and horror from this lamentable scourge of continuous functions with no derivatives."
- Name given by Arthur and Whitaker in Rectified Lunar Atlas (1963) and approved by IAU in 1964 (Whitaker, 1999, p234).
- Hermite has one associated lettered crater: Hermite A. As shown in the figure above, a number of formerly unnamed small craters around it have recently been given individual IAU-approved names.
LPOD Articles
A New View of the Limb A Mystery Crater North of the Pole
Bibliography