Milne

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Milne Basin

(unofficial name; IAU crater name: Milne; 272 km diam)

Lat: 31.13°S, Long: 112.67°E, Main ring diam: 272 km, Basin depth: 3.25 km, Rükl: (farside)

external image normal_milne-basin.jpg

external image normal_Milne_Basin_LIDAR_LTVT.JPG

Left: LROC mosaic image (WAC No's. M130883147ME, M130889941ME, M130896709ME, M130903508ME, M130917068ME, M130923866ME, M130930660ME).
Right: Clementine, Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from PDS Map-a-Planet remapped to north-up aerial view by LTVT. The dot is the center position and the white circle the main ring position from Chuck Wood's Impact Basin Database. Grid spacing = 10 degrees.


Images

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Maps

(LAC zone 101D4) 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
Probable
Pre-Nectarian

125, 262 km



Description


Description: Wikipedia

Milne

Additional Information


Nomenclature

The IAU crater name honors Edward Arthur Milne FRS (February 14, 1896 – September 21, 1950), a British mathematician and astrophysicist. Milne's earlier work was in mathematical astrophysics. From 1932 he also worked on the problem of the "expanding universe" and in Relativity, Gravitation, and World-Structure (1935), proposed an alternative to Albert Einstein's general relativity theory. His later work, concerned with the interior structure of stars, aroused controversy. Milne was president of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1943–1945.
  • The impact basin is named after the crater.


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