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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Mutus LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Mutus%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Mutus Apollo Images]<br /> <br />  
 
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Mutus LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Mutus%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Mutus Apollo Images]<br /> <br />  
 
==Maps==
 
==Maps==
''([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 127C4)'' [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac127/ LAC map] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/usgs/I702/ Geologic map]<br /> <br />  
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''([[LAC%20zone|LAC zone]] 127C4)'' [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LAC/lac127/ LAC map] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/usgs/I702/ Geologic map]<br /> <br />  
 
==Description==
 
==Description==
 
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==Description: Elger==
 
==Description: Elger==
''([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions])'' MUTUS.--A fine but foreshortened walled plain, 51 miles in diameter. There are two ring-plains of about equal size on the floor, one on the N., and the other on the S. side. The wall on the E. rises to nearly 14,000 feet above the interior.<br /> <br />  
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''([[IAU%20Directions|IAU Directions]])'' MUTUS.--A fine but foreshortened walled plain, 51 miles in diameter. There are two ring-plains of about equal size on the floor, one on the N., and the other on the S. side. The wall on the E. rises to nearly 14,000 feet above the interior.<br /> <br />  
 
==Description: Wikipedia==
 
==Description: Wikipedia==
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutus_(crater) Mutus]<br /> <br />  
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutus_(crater) Mutus]<br /> <br />  
 
==Additional Information==
 
==Additional Information==
  Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]<br />  
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  Depth data from [[Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths|Kurt Fisher database]]<br />  
 
* Westfall, 2000: 3.58 km
 
* Westfall, 2000: 3.58 km
 
* Viscardy, 1985: 3.7 km
 
* Viscardy, 1985: 3.7 km

Revision as of 16:05, 15 April 2018

Mutus

Lat: 63.6°S, Long: 30.1°E, Diam: 77 km, Depth: 3.58 km, Rükl: 74, pre-Nectarian

Table of Contents

[#Mutus Mutus]
[#Mutus-Images Images]
[#Mutus-Maps Maps]
[#Mutus-Description Description]
[#Mutus-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Mutus-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Mutus-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Mutus-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Mutus-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Mutus-Bibliography Bibliography]
external image normal_Boussingault-2.JPG
Eric Roel; Mutus is the crater at the bottom left.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

(LAC zone 127C4) LAC map Geologic map

Description


Description: Elger

(IAU Directions) MUTUS.--A fine but foreshortened walled plain, 51 miles in diameter. There are two ring-plains of about equal size on the floor, one on the N., and the other on the S. side. The wall on the E. rises to nearly 14,000 feet above the interior.

Description: Wikipedia

Mutus

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
  • Westfall, 2000: 3.58 km
  • Viscardy, 1985: 3.7 km
  • Cherrington, 1969: 2.89 km

What was the "mechanism" of the creation of Mutus W? See: http://bit.ly/2BKg9S0 (were there two impacts involved?).

Nomenclature

  • Vicente Mut (or Muth) Armengol (1614 - ca. 1687) was a Spanish Writer, lawyer, solider and astronomer. He studied the sciences, but emphasized the field of astronomy, elaborating on works of many other notable astronomers.
  • Named by Riccioli (1651)


LPOD Articles

A Strange Depression
A Second Discovery

Bibliography




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