Tsiolkovskiy-Stark Basin

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Tsiolkovskiy-Stark Basin

(unofficial name)
Lat: 15°S, Long: 128°E, Main ring diam: 700 km, Depth: km, Rukl:

external image normal_Tsiolkovsky-Stark_Basin_LIDAR_LTVT.JPG
Clementine data: altitude-coded shaded relief map

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(LAC zone 83C3) 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
700 km
1.1 km
-51 mG gravity anomaly


Description


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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 Tsiolkovskiy and Stark.

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