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| − | + | [http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=1069&fullsize=1 [[Image:normal_plummer-clem1.jpg|external image normal_plummer-clem1.jpg]]][[Image:Plummer.jpg|Plummer.jpg]]<br /> left: ''[http://lpod.org/coppermine/displayimage.php?pos=-1069 Clementine] .'' right: '''''LROC''' .'' '''Plummer''' lies on top of northern inner ring of '''[[South%20Pole%20-%20Aitken%20Basin|South Pole - Aitken Basin]]'''<br /> <br /> | |
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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Plummer LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Plummer%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Plummer Apollo Images]<br /> [http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_Zond08_39.jpg Frame 39], made by Zond 8, shows '''Plummer''' to the left of the grey/white square at the frame's right margin (between the grey/white square and the frame's central cross).<br /> Research: Danny Caes<br /> <br /> | [http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Plummer LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Plummer%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Plummer Apollo Images]<br /> [http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_Zond08_39.jpg Frame 39], made by Zond 8, shows '''Plummer''' to the left of the grey/white square at the frame's right margin (between the grey/white square and the frame's central cross).<br /> Research: Danny Caes<br /> <br /> | ||
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| − | Don't know if it's the same Plummer as the one mentioned above (Henry Crozier Keating Plummer), but... according to the footnote on page 64 in Volume 1 of T.W.Webb's ''Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes'' (chapter VENUS), he (Plummer) concluded from his own observations that the brightness of Venus is (or was) about 9 times more powerful than the brightness of the brightest star in the heavens (Alpha Canis Majoris, aka Sirius). <span class="membersnap">- | + | Don't know if it's the same Plummer as the one mentioned above (Henry Crozier Keating Plummer), but... according to the footnote on page 64 in Volume 1 of T.W.Webb's ''Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes'' (chapter VENUS), he (Plummer) concluded from his own observations that the brightness of Venus is (or was) about 9 times more powerful than the brightness of the brightest star in the heavens (Alpha Canis Majoris, aka Sirius). <span class="membersnap">- DannyCaes <small>Jul 18, 2015</small></span><br /> <br /> |
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Revision as of 17:43, 15 April 2018
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Plummer
| Lat: 25.0°S, Long: 155.0°W, Diam: 73 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside) |
left: Clementine . right: LROC . Plummer lies on top of northern inner ring of South Pole - Aitken Basin
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Frame 39, made by Zond 8, shows Plummer to the left of the grey/white square at the frame's right margin (between the grey/white square and the frame's central cross).
Research: Danny Caes
Maps
(LAC zone 105C1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Nomenclature
Henry Crozier Keating; British astronomer (1875-1946).
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Don't know if it's the same Plummer as the one mentioned above (Henry Crozier Keating Plummer), but... according to the footnote on page 64 in Volume 1 of T.W.Webb's Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes (chapter VENUS), he (Plummer) concluded from his own observations that the brightness of Venus is (or was) about 9 times more powerful than the brightness of the brightest star in the heavens (Alpha Canis Majoris, aka Sirius). - DannyCaes Jul 18, 2015
