Balmer

Balmer

Lat: 20.3°S, Long: 69.8°E, Diam: 138 km, Depth: 1.96 km, Rükl: 60

Table of Contents

[#Balmer Balmer]

[#Balmer-Images Images]

[#Balmer-Maps Maps]

[#Balmer-Description Description]

[#Balmer-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]

[#Balmer-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Balmer-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Balmer-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Balmer-Bibliography Bibliography]

Derek Francis, Humboldt, Hecataeus & Balmer: Balmer is the old crater near the center with a small crater within it.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

(LAC zone 98B3) LAC map Geologic map

Description

Description: Wikipedia

Balmer

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
 

• Westfall, 2000: 1.96 km

Nomenclature

• Johann Jakob; Swiss mathematician, physician (1825-1898).
• Name given by Arthur and Whitaker in Rectified Lunar Atlas (1963) and approved by IAU in 1964 (Whitaker, 1999, p234).

LPOD Articles

A Balmy Basin (the MoonWiki version of the same LPOD: A Balmy Basin).
Balmer or Balmy?
Still balmy after all these years

Bibliography

Hawke, BR & 8 more (2004). Remote sensing and geologic studies of the Balmer region of the Moon. Lunar & Planetary Science 35, 1190.
  A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings (Harold Hill), pages 222, 223.
 

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