Kiess (of the pair Kiess-Widmannstatten in Mare Smythii)

Lat: 6.45°S, Long: 84.13°E, Diam: 68.99 km, Depth: 0.8 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2049 Rükl: 49]

Two of Apollo 8's orbital Hasselblad photographs show Kastner S and the chevron-shaped rim of the dark Kiess north-northeast of it : AS08-12-2176 and AS08-12-2177. Research: Danny Caes.
Pan 7, composed of Apollo 8's orbital Hasselblads AS08-12-2164 to 2177, shows Kiess and Kastner S near the pan's extreme left margin. Research: David Woods and Frank O'Brien (Apollo 8 Flight Journal).

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 81B4) LTO map

IAU page: Kiess
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Pike, 1976: 0.8 km
- Westfall, 2000: 0.8 km

Named for Carl Clarence Kiess (1887 – 1967), an American astronomer. While working at the Lick Observatory on July 6, 1911, Kiess discovered comet C/1911 N1, which was named after him.
This name appears on LTO-81B4 (for which it served as the chart title). It does not appear to replace any previous IAU-approved designation. Although it appears in the cumulative list of approved names printed in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB IAU Transactions XVB], when and how it came to be approved is not entirely clear from the IAU record. Biographical information was unofficially reported in [/Ashbrook%2C%201974 Ashbrook, 1974]. - JimMosher JimMosher
Kastner S, the bright crater south-southwest of Kiess, was also called Cellini on LTO-81B4.
Kiess and nearby [/Widmannst%C3%A4tten Widmannstätten] were called the Wright brothers by NASA personnel (this during the hey-days of the Apollo program).

Kiess and Widmannstätten as the "Wright brothers": [/NASA%20SP-330 NASA SP-330] page 28-12.

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