Pogson

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Pogson

Lat: 42.2°S, Long: 110.5°E, Diam: 50 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

external image normal_pogson-clem1.jpgPogson.jpg
left: Clementine . right: LROC

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Pogson was captured near the upper right corner of Apollo 17's Fairchild-camera photograph AS17-M-3183, which was made during Trans Earth Coast (TEC).
Research: Danny Caes

Maps

(LAC zone 117D1) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Wikipedia

Pogson

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Nomenclature

Norman Robert Pogson (March 23, 1829 – June 23, 1891) was an English astronomer. By the time he was 18 years old, he had computed the orbits of two comets. He became an assistant at Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford, England in 1851. In 1860 he traveled to Madras, India, becoming the government astronomer. At the Madras Observatory he produced the Madras Catalog of 11,015 stars.

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