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Campbell

Lat: 45.3°N, Long: 151.4°E, Diam: 219 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside), pre-Nectarian

external image normal_Campbell-LO-V-M085.jpgCampbell.jpg
left: LO-V-M085 - north to the right
right: LROC . Accompanying Campbell in the image are Slipher at top right corner, Wiener at bottom left and Von Neumann at bottom center.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- An oblique looking Campbell was captured near the upper right corner of Apollo 13's orbital Hasselblad frame AS13-60-8653.
- Research: Patricio L. (Nunki).

Maps

(LAC zone 31B2) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Wikipedia

Campbell

Additional Information

  • Area of floor mare 2400 km2 and Imbrian age. 4.5-5.5 wt% FeO and 1-3 wt% TiO2. Dark halo crater excavates buried mare material (Gillis and Spudis, 1996)


Nomenclature

  • This name entered the IAU nomenclature in the long list of farside names published in Menzel, 1971. The citation indicates the name honors two men:


  • W. W. Campbell was the 1915 Bruce Medalist of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and extensive links to information about him can be found there.


LPOD Articles


Bibliography


Certain Campbells in the Sourcebook Project (compiled by William R. Corliss)

- In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
  • Page 64: The Closing of a Famous Astronomical Problem (W.W.Campbell, Popular Science Monthly, 1909).
  • Page 379: The Lines on Mars (William J. Hussey, Science, 1892).
  • Page 407: The Bright Projections on Mars (Observatory, 1894).
  • Page 518: The Bright Object near the Sun (Nature, 1921).
  • Page 550: Spin-Orbit Resonance of the Inner Planets (Philip M. Campbell, Science, 1969).
  • Page 609: The Change of Climate and its Cause (M.Davidson, Knowledge, 1915).
  • Page 674: The Einstein Shift - an Unsettled Problem (F.Schmeidler, Sky and Telescope, 1964).

Note:
The first article in this list was written by W.W.Campbell, the fifth article was written by a Philip M. Campbell. The other articles have certain Campbells in them, it would be interesting to know who they really were (or still are). - DannyCaes Apr 11, 2015