Dyson

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Dyson

Lat: 61.3°N, Long: 121.2°W, Diam: 63 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) [/Stratigraphy Nectarian]

external image normal_dyson-large.jpg

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Left: Clementine image from Map-A-Planet. Right:Color-coded topography LAC 20 image from [/USGS%20Digital%20Atlas USGS Digital Atlas].

Table of Contents

[#Dyson Dyson]
[#Dyson-Images Images]
[#Dyson-Maps Maps]
[#Dyson-Description Description]
[#Dyson-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Dyson-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Dyson-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Dyson-Lettered Craters Lettered Craters]
[#Dyson-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Dyson-Bibliography Bibliography]
[#Dyson-Sir Frank Watson Dyson in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss) Sir Frank Watson Dyson in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)]


Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 20B1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Wikipedia

Dyson

Additional Information


Nomenclature

  • Named for Sir Frank Watson Dyson (1868-1939), a British astronomer. In addition to being Astronomer Royal (of England) from 1910 to 1933, Dyson was President of the IAU's Commission 17 (Lunar Nomenclature) at the time [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations] was published (1935).


  • Mount Dyson was [/Wilkins%20300-inch%20Map%20Names H. P. Wilkins]'s unofficial name for [/Pytheas Pytheas] Beta, a small hillock in [/Mare%20Imbrium Mare Imbrium].


Lettered Craters

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Excerpt from the USGS Digital Atlas of the Moon.

LPOD Articles


Bibliography


Sir Frank Watson Dyson in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)

- In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
  • Page 674: The Einstein Shift - an unsettled problem (F.Schmeidler, Sky and Telescope, 1964).

Note: another Dyson (or perhaps the same?) is mentioned on page 633, in the article How Special is the Universe? (P.C.W.Davies, Nature, 1974).


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