Moigno
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Moigno
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Lat: 66.4°N, Long: 28.9°E, Diam: 36 km, Depth: 0.76 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%205 Rükl 5] |
Table of Contents
[#Moigno Moigno]
[#Moigno-Images Images]
[#Moigno-Maps Maps]
[#Moigno-Description Description]
[#Moigno-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Moigno-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Moigno-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Moigno-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Moigno-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Moigno-Bibliography Bibliography]
[#Moigno-Abbe Moigno in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss) Abbe Moigno in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)]
LO-IV-092H Moigno is in the center. On its floor is the 9-km shadowed circle of Moigno C. Also visible in this view are 9-km [/Neison Neison] A (upper left) and 11-km [/Arnold Arnold] G. Partially visible along the bottom margin is the northern part of 23-km Moigno D (on the left), and a similarly-sized, but unnamed, crater to its east.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 4D3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) MOIGNO.--A ring-plain with a dark floor, adjoining [/Arnold Arnold] on the N.W. There is a conspicuous little crater in the interior.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 0.76 km
Nomenclature
- Named for Francois Napoleon Marie Moigno (Abbe Moigno) (b. 15 April, 1804; d. 14 July, 1884), a physicist and author. In 1852 he founded the well-known scientific journal Cosmos.
- The name Moigno seems to first appear in a list of new lunar names proposed by [/Lee John Lee] and [/Birt W. R. Birt] published in MNRAS and slightly expanded in Astronomische Nachrichten. In neither publication is the identity of the honoree explained.
- This feature is Catalog number 683 in Mary Blagg's [/Collated%20List Collated List], where the name Moigno is noted as having been used in [/Neison%2C%201876 Neison, 1876]. Neither [/Julius%20Schmidt Julius Schmidt] nor [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler] named the feature. Instead, Schmidt complained he was unable to identify the British Association's Moigno and [/Peters Peters] (another name that appeared in the Birt and Lee list).
- The name Moigno was adopted into the original IAU nomenclature of [/Named%20Lunar%20Formations Named Lunar Formations].
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Abbe Moigno in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)
- Page 46 in: Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
- A Supposed New Interior Planet (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1859).
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