Peary
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Peary
(formerly Gioja B)
Lat: 88.6°N, Long: 33.0°E, Diam: 73 km, Depth: 2.71 km, Rükl 4, 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. Several of the smaller craters also have IAU names.
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
(LAC zone 1A1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF Lunar Orbiter version
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Cherrington, 1969: 2.71 km
- The Moon's 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 and Moore but not approved by IAU; shifted to a different crater in Rectified Lunar Atlas (1963) and approved by IAU in 1964 (Whitaker, 1999, p235).
LPOD Articles
Lunar 100
L88: Difficult-to-observe polar crater.
Bibliography
Wood, C.A. 7/2005. Polar Pleasures. S&T 110(1):62-63
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