Phillips

Lat: 26.6°S, Long: 75.3°E, Diam: 122 km, Depth: 3.2 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2060 Rükl 60]

Named for John Phillips (December 25, 1800 – April 24, 1874) a British geologist. In 1834 Phillips was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. Phillips spent some time in studying the Palaeozoic fossils of Devon, Cornwall and West Somerset, of which he published a descriptive memoir (1841). He also made a detailed survey of the region of the Malvern Hills, of which he prepared the elaborate account that appears in vol. ii. of the Memoirs of the Survey (1848). Phillips also made astronomical observations of the planet Mars during its 1862 opposition.
The name Phillips (honoring "our great geological astronomer") was proposed by British amateur [/Birt W. R. Birt] in 1863, at which time there was apparently some confusion as to whether [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler]'s name [/Humboldt Humboldt] referred to this crater or the larger one to its east.
Perhaps we could also add T. E. R. Phillips (Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips, 1868-1942, English astronomer). - DannyCaes DannyCaes Dec 13, 2014
And maybe Samuel C. Phillips too... (1921-1990, Director of NASA's Apollo Manned Lunar Landing Program from 1964 to 1969). - DannyCaes DannyCaes Sep 10, 2015
Phillips B was called Santacruz by Wilkins and Paluzie-Borrell, but the [/IAU IAU] did not accept the name. Alonso De Santa Cruz was a Spanish astronomer (1505-1567).

LPOD Articles

Phillips B ("Santacruz"): [/Wilkins%20and%20Moore Wilkins and Moore].

In Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :

Page 511: Bright Objects observed near the Sun (W.H.Steavenson, Journal of the British Astronomical Association, 1914).

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