C. Herschel
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C. Herschel
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Lat: 34.5°N, Long: 31.2°W, Diam: 13 km, Depth: 1.85 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2010 Rükl: 10] |
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LOIV 139 H1 The small mountain on the west, mentioned by Elger, was once known in the IAU nomenclature as C. Herschel Zeta. The long ridge on which C. Herschel stands, also mentioned by Elger, is [/Dorsum%20Heim Dorsum Heim].
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images See also: Prominence Epsilon; the somewhat table-mountain shaped hillock to the west-northwest of the small bowl-shaped crater C. Herschel E (west of C. Herschel itself).
- Three oblique north-looking metric/mapping Fairchild-camera photographs made during the mission of Apollo 15 (erroneously included in the LPI's list of the equatorial crater Herschel) show crater C. Herschel during local sunrise. - DannyCaes DannyCaes Jun 5, 2010
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 24D3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) CAROLINE HERSCHEL.--A bright and very deep ring-plain about 8 miles in diameter on the [/Mare%20Imbrium Mare Imbrium], some distance W.N.W. of [/CARLINI CARLINI]. On the S.W. lies a larger crater, [/Heis Delisle B], which has a small but obvious crater on its N. rim, and casts a very prominent shadow at sunrise. Caroline Herschel stands on a long curved ridge running N.W. from [/Lambert Lambert] towards the region W. of [/Helicon Helicon], and, according to Schmidt, has a central peak. On the W. is a bright mountain with two peaks; some distance N. of which is a large ill-defined white spot, with another spot of a similar kind on the E. of it, nearly due N. of Caroline Herschel.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Arthur, 1974: 1.85 km
- Westfall, 2000: 1.85 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 1.85 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 1.46 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Caroline Lucretia Herschel (March 16, 1750 – January 9, 1848), a German-born English astronomer who worked with her brother, [/Herschel Sir William Herschel]. Her most significant contribution to astronomy was the discovery of several comets. In particular, the periodic comet 35P/Herschel-Rigollet bears her name.
- This feature is Catalog number 1602 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List], where the name is noted as [/Delisle Delisle] C in [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler] and Caroline Herschel in [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison, 1876].
- The name had previously been printed as Herschel, Miss (#478) in the [/British%20Association British Association] list as published in Webb (1873).
- It entered the IAU nomenclature of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] as Caroline Herschel, with the name attributed to [/Birt Birt].
- The name was shorted to C. Herschel (or possibly Herschel, C.) by [/PLA%20Table%20III Kuiper].
- Not to be confused with [/Herschel Herschel] and [/J.%20Herschel J. Herschel].
- List of lunar features named for [/Nomenclature-Women women].
- C. Herschel Epsilon and C. Herschel Zeta (two prominent hills between C. Herschel and the Gruithuisen mountains, aka Gruithuisen Gamma, Delta, and Zeta) (see Charts 15 and 16 in the Times Atlas of the Moon).
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