Peary
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Peary
(formerly [/Gioja Gioja] B)
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Lat: 88.6°N, Long: 33.0°E, Diam: 73 km, Depth: 2.71 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%204 Rükl 4], [/Stratigraphy pre-Nectarian] |
Table of Contents
[#Peary Peary]
[#Peary-Images Images]
[#Peary-Maps Maps]
[#Peary-Description Description]
[#Peary-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Peary-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Peary-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Peary-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Peary-Lunar 100 Lunar 100]
[#Peary-Bibliography Bibliography]
LOIV 104 H3 Peary is the irregularly shaped crater near the center of the image. The large crater straddling the lower margin is [/Byrd Byrd]. Several of the smaller craters also have IAU names.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 1A1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF Lunar Orbiter version
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Cherrington, 1969: 2.71 km
- The Moon's [/north%20pole north pole] (rotation axis) appears to be just outside the rim of Peary.
Nomenclature
- Named for Robert Edwin Peary (May 6, 1856 – February 20, 1920), an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole.
- Name originally proposed by [/Wilkins%20and%20Moore Wilkins and Moore] but not approved by [/IAU IAU]; shifted to a different crater in [/Rectified%20Lunar%20Atlas Rectified Lunar Atlas] (1963) and approved by IAU in 1964 ([/Whitaker Whitaker], 1999, p235).
LPOD Articles
Lunar 100
[/Lunar%20100 L88]: Difficult-to-observe polar crater.
Bibliography
Wood, C.A. 7/2005. Polar Pleasures. S&T 110(1):62-63
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