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Lockyer

Lat: 46.2°S, Long: 36.7°E, Diam: 34 km, Depth: 1.53 km, Rükl: 67

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LOIV 076 H2

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Lockyer G, the crater in the top photograph's upper left corner (with pronounced central peak), is mentioned in the LPOD of october the 15th, 2008. An interesting telescopic target!- DannyCaes Oct 16, 2008

Maps

(LAC zone 114D4) LAC map Geologic map

Description


Description: Elger

(IAU Directions) LOCKYER.--A prominent deep ring-plain, 32 miles in diameter, with massive bright lofty walls, standing just outside the S.W. border of Janssen. Schmidt shows a minute crater on the S. rim. I have seen a crater within, at the inner foot of the E. wall, and a central peak.

Description: Wikipedia

Lockyer

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
  • Westfall, 2000: 1.53 km
  • Viscardy, 1985: 3.7 km


Nomenclature

  • Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer (May 17, 1836 – August 16, 1920) was an English scientist, astrophysicist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen he is credited with discovering the gas helium. A keen amateur astronomer with a particular interest in the sun, Lockyer eventually became director of the solar physics observatory in Kensington London. To facilitate the transmission of ideas between scientific disciplines, Lockyer established the general science journal Nature in 1869.
  • Crater Lockyer H was called Hill by Hugh Percy Wilkins and Patrick Moore, but the I.A.U. did not accept that name.
  • Hill was a contemporary English selenographer.
  • A curiosity: who was William J. S. Lockyer? See Lightning, Auroras, Nocturnal Lights, and related luminous phenomena (William R. Corliss, The Sourcebook Project, 1982), at GLL2-R6, GLL2-R8, and GLL14-R3. - DannyCaes Apr 15, 2015


LPOD Articles

Blacky and Wispy. Hemispherical Peak (Lockyer G).

Bibliography

Lockyer H (Hill): THE MOON by H.P.Wilkins and Patrick Moore.

J. N. Lockyer in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)

- In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
  • Page 379: The Canals of Mars (Walter E. Maunder, Knowledge, 1894).