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* Named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus Daedalus] (meaning "cunning worker"), in Greek mythology a most skillful artificer, so skillful that he was said to have invented images. Daedalus had two sons: [/Icarus Icarus] and Iapyx. | * Named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus Daedalus] (meaning "cunning worker"), in Greek mythology a most skillful artificer, so skillful that he was said to have invented images. Daedalus had two sons: [/Icarus Icarus] and Iapyx. | ||
− | * '''Daedalus''' was among the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in [http://the-moon. | + | * '''Daedalus''' was among the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in [http://the-moon.us/wiki/Menzel%2C%201971#DAEDALUS Menzel, 1971]. It is one of the very few modern crater names based on a mythological figure (a practice that is no longer allowed), although the biographical information regards him as a legendary figure who can (possibly) be placed in the second millennium BC. |
− | * In the planning for Apollo 8, the first manned circumlunar mission (1968), this crater (which did not then have an official name) was referred to informally as "'''Phillips'''", a name that properly refers to a completely [/Phillips different] nearside crater (source: [http:// | + | * In the planning for Apollo 8, the first manned circumlunar mission (1968), this crater (which did not then have an official name) was referred to informally as "'''Phillips'''", a name that properly refers to a completely [/Phillips different] nearside crater (source: [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/September_9,_2007 Phil Stooke's LPOD]). |
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Contents
Daedalus
Lat: 5.9°S, Long: 179.4°E, Diam: 93 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) | ||
Table of Contents
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- AS11-44-6609 and AS11-44-6611 are two of the most frequently reproduced and most well-known orbital Hasselblad photographs of the moon's Far Side (both photographs show the area just southward of Lipsky, which is the antipode of Sinus Medii on the moon's Near Side). The large pronounced crater in both photographs is Daedalus. Looking south.
- Apollo 17's northward looking oblique Fairchild camera frame AS17-M-0828 shows Daedalus near the central part of the curved horizon.
Additional research orbital Apollo photography: Danny Caes
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 86A3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Daedalus is a crater of the [/Stratigraphy Early Imbrium] period (3.75 to 3.2 bn years ago). It lies some 500 kilometres away west of the [/Korolev Korolev Basin] and some 300 kilometres away north of the outer ring of the South Pole Aitken Basin to its south -- both respectively [/Stratigraphy Nectarian] (3.92 to 3.85 bn years) and [/Stratigraphy pre-Nectarian] (4.6 to 3.92bn years) in age. The crater looks relatively fresh; showing sharp-ish-looking rims all around with sequences of wonderfully-preserved terraces down onto a pock-marked, flat floor consisting of numerous craterlets and a central peak divided up into two to three well-defined hills (see Danny Caes's Apollo links above). - JohnMoore2 JohnMoore2
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- [/Central%20peak%20composition Central peak composition]: A ([/Tompkins%20%26%20Pieters%2C%201999 Tompkins & Pieters, 1999])
- TSI = 30, CPI = 20, FI = 20; MI =70 [/Smith%20and%20Sanchez%2C%201973 Smith and Hartnell, 1973]
Nomenclature
- Named for Daedalus (meaning "cunning worker"), in Greek mythology a most skillful artificer, so skillful that he was said to have invented images. Daedalus had two sons: [/Icarus Icarus] and Iapyx.
- Daedalus was among the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in Menzel, 1971. It is one of the very few modern crater names based on a mythological figure (a practice that is no longer allowed), although the biographical information regards him as a legendary figure who can (possibly) be placed in the second millennium BC.
- In the planning for Apollo 8, the first manned circumlunar mission (1968), this crater (which did not then have an official name) was referred to informally as "Phillips", a name that properly refers to a completely [/Phillips different] nearside crater (source: Phil Stooke's LPOD).
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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