Petrov
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Petrov
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Lat: 61.4°S, Long: 88.0°E, Diam: 49 km, Depth: 2.14 km, Rükl 76 |
left: LO-IV-005H . right: LROC . The deeply shadowed crater at the bottom of Petrov is satellite A with old satellite B to its right. None of the other features in this view have IAU-approved names.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- Petrov as seen by a Hasselblad camera of Apollo 15, and captured on color film: AS15-96-13093. In this photograph, the location of Petrov is a little bit below and to the left of the frame's centre. See also the Hi-Res scan: AS15-96-13093 HR.
- Research: Danny Caes.
Maps
(LAC zone 129C4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 2.14 km
Nomenclature
Evgenij S.; Soviet rocketry scientist (1900-1942).
- Although Petrov appears in the cumulative list of approved names in IAU Transactions XVB, it is not clear precisely when and where it was approved. - Jim Mosher
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Another Petrov, and... the Phase Anomaly or Dichotomy of Venus
There must have been (or still is) a certain V. N. Petrov, who, together with N. N. Michelson, investigated certain phase anomalies of planet Venus, and wrote an article about this subject, see: Sky and Telescope, August 1958. Source: page 106 of Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (William R. Corliss, The Sourcebook Project, 1979); Minick Rushton: On the Variation of the Phase of Venus from Theory (Strolling Astronomer, 1961).
