Litke

Litke (Lütke)

Lat: 16.8°S, Long: 123.1°E, Diam: 39 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

Left:Clementine Middle: Apollo AS15-M-0985 image (orientated for North top) from the Lunar & Planetary Institute. Right: Color-coded topography LAC 101 image from [/USGS%20Digital%20Atlas USGS Digital Atlas].

Table of Contents

[#Litke (Lütke) Litke (Lütke)]

[#Litke (Lütke)-Images Images]

[#Litke (Lütke)-Maps Maps]

[#Litke (Lütke)-Description Description]

[#Litke (Lütke)-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]

[#Litke (Lütke)-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Litke (Lütke)-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Litke (Lütke)-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Litke (Lütke)-Bibliography Bibliography]

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images (nothing for Litke, two for Lutke), Apollo Images (nothing for Litke, a huge list for Lutke !).
Litke (Lutke) was also captured near the central parts of Apollo 17's ITEK camera frames AS17-P-2789 (its western part, near the eastern part of Delporte), AS17-P-2787 (almost the whole of Litke), and AS17-P-2785 (Litke's eastern part).
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Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 101B1) LTO map

• Nomenclature maps (PDF files from the [/USGS%20Digital%20Atlas USGS Digital Atlas])
  • LIDAR-shaded Relief Map
  • Lunar Orbiter

Description

Description: Wikipedia

Litke (Lütke)

Additional Information

Nomenclature

• Named for Fyodor Petrovich Litke (1797-1882, born Lütke), a Russian geographer, navigator and Arctic explorer of German descent.
• Lütke was in the long list of farside names approved by the [/IAU IAU] in 1970 and published in [/Menzel%2C%201971#Litke Menzel, 1971].
• The spelling of the name was changed (without explanation) to Litke in the "complete" list of crater names published by the IAU in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB 1973].
• Editors of an early edition of the [/IAU%20Planetary%20Gazetteer Planetary Gazetteer] at the [/USGS USGS] entered the name into their computer database in the form Litke (Lütke), and it remains in that form in the IAU's current on-line version.
• Aside from three [/catena catenae] whose names were adopted with [/Nomenclature%20Zoo#Parenthetical_Names parenthetical parts], Litke (Lütke) is the only feature name to be printed with an alternative spelling in parenthesis on the nomenclature maps of IAU database curator Jennifer Blue's [/USGS%20Digital%20Atlas USGS Digital Atlas].

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

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