Orlov
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Orlov
| Lat: 25.7°S, Long: 175.0°W, Diam: 81 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) |
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[#Orlov Orlov]
[#Orlov-Images Images]
[#Orlov-Maps Maps]
[#Orlov-Description Description]
[#Orlov-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Orlov-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Orlov-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Orlov-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Orlov-Bibliography Bibliography]
Apollo 17 image AS17-150-22948 (submitted by Stefan Lammel) This photo, taken from over 126-km diameter Orlov Y, shows the deeply shadowed Orlov to the lower left of center, with 125-km [/Leeuwenhoek Leeuwenhoek] near the horizon. [/Leeuwenhoek Leeuwenhoek] overlaps the similarly-sized [/Leeuwenhoek Leeuwenhoek] E (which butts up against the smaller Orlov).Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
- AS17-162-24105 is one of the orbital photographs which was made with a Nikon camera (35 mm), this during the last Apollo mission in December 1972. It is centered over Orlov Y and, based on the very similar shadows, appears to be have been taken at nearly the same. It shows Orlov near the right margin, with [/Leeuwenhoek Leeuwenhoek] immediately below it (near the curved horizon), looking southwest. The large-looking crater along the top margin is an unnamed region between Orlov Y and [/Bok Bok]. Compare this photograph with the LAC 104 map in the [/Clementine%20Atlas Clementine Atlas]. Research: Danny Caes
- Frame 57, made by ZOND 8, shows Orlov and its "row" of central peaks just "above" the grey-white rectangle near the frame's upper right corner. Research: Danny Caes
- Dept., of Lunar and Planetary Research, Moscow University, Russia.
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 104C1) LM map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- [/Central%20peak%20composition Central peak composition]: A, GNTA1, GNTA2 & AGN ([/Tompkins%20%26%20Pieters%2C%201999 Tompkins & Pieters, 1999])
Nomenclature
- This crater honors two men (twins?):
- Aleksandr Iakovlevich Orlov (1880-1954), a Soviet astronomer and geophysicist. According the IAU citation he was the founding director of the Poltava Gravimetrical Observatory, apparently a branch of the Kiev Observatory. He had a special interest in comet tails.
- Sergei Vladimirovich Orlov (1880-1958), a Soviet astronomer and (according to the IAU citation), a professor at the University of Moscow and Director of the Sternberg Institute. He also studied comets.
- This dual naming was part of the long list of farside feature names approved by the [/IAU IAU] in 1970 and published in [/Menzel%2C%201971#ORLOV Menzel, 1971].
LPOD Articles
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