Donati
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Donati
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Lat: 20.7°S, Long: 5.2°E, Diam: 36 km, Depth: 2.07 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2055 Rükl: 55] |
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LO-IV-101H The two similar craters are [/Faye Faye] (left) and Donati (right). The shadowed region in the lower left is the eastern part of 46-km [/Delaunay Delaunay].
Images
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- Although Donati is not mentioned in the LPI's search list for orbital Apollo photographs, it WAS captured on several frames made by Apollo 16's south-looking mapping/metric Fairchild camera, such as frame AS16-M-0707, in which Donati and Faye (and their central peaks) are noticeable near the central part of the curved horizon.
- Research: Danny Caes.
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 95B3) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) DONATI.--A ring-plain on the S. of Airy C, about 22 miles in greatest length. It is very irregular in outline, with a lofty broken border, especially on the N. and S., where there are wide gaps. There is another ring on the S.W.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
Westfall, 2000: 2.07 km
Cherrington, 1969: 2.74 km - From the shadows in LO-IV-101H, the central peak of [/Faye Faye] is 1400 m tall. There is a 1-km diameter crater at its summit. The central peak of Donati is about 1300 m tall. - JimMosher JimMosher
- The central peak is 1.3 km tall [/Sekiguchi%2C%201972 Sekiguchi, 1972]. - fatastronomer fatastronomer
Nomenclature
- Giovanni Battista Donati (December 16, 1826 – September 20, 1873) was an Italian astronomer. Between 1854 and 1864 he discovered six new comets, including the spectacular Comet Donati (C/1858 L1), found in 1858. He also pioneered spectroscopy of comets to determine their physical composition, discovering that the spectrum changed when a comet approached the Sun and heating caused it to emit its own light rather than reflected sunlight.
- According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 221), this name was introduced by [/Birt Birt] and [/Lee Lee].
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