Sikorsky-Rittenhouse Basin

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Sikorsky-Rittenhouse Basin

(unofficial name)
Lat: 68°S, Long: 111°E, Main ring diam: 310 km, Depth: km, Rukl: farside

external image normal_Sikorsky-Rittenhouse_Basin_LIDAR_LTVT.JPG
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.

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(LAC zone 140A4)

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
Nectarian
11
310 km
km
mG gravity anomaly


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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 Sikorsky and Rittenhouse.

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