Urey

From The Moon
Jump to: navigation, search

Urey

(Formerly Rayleigh A)

Lat: 27.9°N, Long: 87.4°E, Diam: 38 km, Depth: 3.34 km, Rükl 27

external image Urey-iv165-h3.jpg
LO-iv165-h3

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

(LAC zone 45B3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF


Description


Description: Wikipedia

Urey

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
  • Westfall, 2000: 3.34 km


Nomenclature

Harold Clayton Urey (April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 and later led him to theories of planetary evolution.

LPOD Articles


Bibliography


H. C. Urey in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)

- In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
  • Page 210: Water on the Moon (Nature, 1967)
  • Page 246: MASCONS: Lunar Mass Concentrations (P.M.Muller, W.L.Sjogren, Science, 1968) (the Urey-Gilbert theory of lunar history)
  • Page 333: Biological Materials in Meteorites: a review (Science, 1966)
  • Page 527: Encounters of the Earth with Comets (R.A.Lyttleton, Nature, 1973)