Gruemberger
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Gruemberger
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Lat: 66.9°S, Long: 10.0°W, Diam: 93 km, Depth: 5.14 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2073 Rükl: 73] |
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[#Gruemberger Gruemberger]
[#Gruemberger-Images Images]
[#Gruemberger-Maps Maps]
[#Gruemberger-Description Description]
[#Gruemberger-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Gruemberger-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Gruemberger-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Gruemberger-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Gruemberger-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Gruemberger-Bibliography Bibliography]
LO-IV-130H The 20-km crater on the southwest floor is Gruemberger A. [/Cysatus Cysatus] is partially visible in the upper right. The dark band across the image is a flaw in the development of the [/Lunar%20Orbiter Lunar Orbiter] film.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 137B1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) GRUEMBERGER.--A much larger and more irregular ring-plain, nearly 40 miles from wall to wall, on the W. side of [/Cysatus Cysatus]. Its E. border rises nearly 14,000 feet above the interior, which includes an abnormally deep crater, the bottom of which is 20,000 feet below the crest of the E. wall, and several small depressions and ridges. The inner W. slope is finely terraced.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 5.14 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 4.3 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 4.11 km
Nomenclature
- Christoph Grienberger (1561-1636), an Austrian [/nomenclature-Jesuits Jesuit astronomer] whose last name was spelled in many variants. Grienberger corresponded with both [/Galileo%20Galilei Galileo] and [/Blancanus Biancani] regarding the possible existence of mountains on the Moon (which the latter rejected).
- According to [/Whitaker Whitaker] (p. 219), this feature was labeled Gruemberger Soc. I on [/Riccioli Riccioli]'s map, with the "Soc. I" being deleted to form the modern name. - JimMosher JimMosher
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
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