Repsold
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Repsold - with concentric crater Repsold A on its floor
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Lat: 51.3°N, Long: 78.6°W, Diam: 109 km, Depth: 1.93 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%201 Rükl: 1] |
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LO-IV-189H Repsold is the large circular enclosure in the center. Straddling its southwest rim is 44-km Repsold G, through which runs a part of [/Rimae%20Repsold Rimae Repsold]. The 9-km [/concentric%20crater concentric crater] on the northeast part of Repsold's floor is Repsold A. Beyond it, outside the main rim is 38-km Repsold B (upper right corner).
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
The LPI's Hi-Res scan of Lunar Orbiter 4's photograph LOIV-189-h3 shows Repsold and its Concentric Crater Repsold A near the frame's left margin. Repsold A is the 46th item in C.A.Wood's list of Concentric Craters (1978).
Research: Danny Caes
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 10D4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) REPSOLD.--The largest of a group of walled enclosures, close to the limb, on the W. side of the [/Sinus%20Roris Sinus Roris].
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 1.93 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 2.71 km
Central peak height
- From the shadows in LO-IV-189H, the central peak of Repsold is about 720 m tall. - JimMosher
- [/Sekiguchi%2C%201972 Sekiguchi, 1972]: 1.1 km - fatastronomer fatastronomer
The strongly-shadowed parts of the main rille are about 330 m deep. The shadows from the southeast rim of Repsold G indicate an irregular height of from 1500-2300 m. - JimMosher
Concentric Crater Repsold A (on the floor of Repsold itself). This is the 46th item in C.A.Wood's list of Concentric Craters (1978).
Nomenclature
Johann Georg; German inventor (1770-1830).
- According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 219), this name was introduced by [/M%C3%A4dler Mädler]. It was part of the original [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] (1935).
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