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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Racah LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Racah%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Racah Apollo Images]<br /> [http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_Zond08_59.jpg Frame 59], a photograph made by Zond 8, shows '''Racah''' just leftward of the frame's central cross.<br />  Research: Danny Caes<br /> <br />  
 
[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Racah LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Racah%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/search/feature/?feature=Racah Apollo Images]<br /> [http://www.mentallandscape.com/C_Zond08_59.jpg Frame 59], a photograph made by Zond 8, shows '''Racah''' just leftward of the frame's central cross.<br />  Research: Danny Caes<br /> <br />  
 
==Maps==
 
==Maps==
''([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 86C4)'' [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/Lunar/lac_86.pdf USGS Digital Atlas PDF]<br /> <br />  
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''([[LAC%20zone|LAC zone]] 86C4)'' [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/images/Lunar/lac_86.pdf USGS Digital Atlas PDF]<br /> <br />  
 
==Description==
 
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==Nomenclature==
 
==Nomenclature==
 
* Named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Racah Giulio Racah] (1909 - August 28, 1965), an Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician. Racah's research was mainly in the fields of quantum physics and atomic spectroscopy. He first devised a systematic general procedure for classifying the energy levels of open shell atoms, which remains to this day the accepted technique for practical calculations of atomic structure. In 1958 he was awarded the Israel Prize for lifetime contribution to physics.
 
* Named for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Racah Giulio Racah] (1909 - August 28, 1965), an Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician. Racah's research was mainly in the fields of quantum physics and atomic spectroscopy. He first devised a systematic general procedure for classifying the energy levels of open shell atoms, which remains to this day the accepted technique for practical calculations of atomic structure. In 1958 he was awarded the Israel Prize for lifetime contribution to physics.
* '''Racah''' was among the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in [/Menzel%2C%201971 Menzel, 1971].
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* '''Racah''' was among the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in [[Menzel%2C%201971|Menzel, 1971]].
 
* In the planning for Apollo 8, the first manned circumlunar mission (1968), this crater (which did not then have an official name) was referred to informally as"'''Shepard'''" (source: [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/September_9,_2007 Phil Stooke's LPOD]).
 
* In the planning for Apollo 8, the first manned circumlunar mission (1968), this crater (which did not then have an official name) was referred to informally as"'''Shepard'''" (source: [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/September_9,_2007 Phil Stooke's LPOD]).
 
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Racah

Lat: 13.8°S, Long: 179.8°W, Diam: 63 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

Table of Contents

[#Racah Racah]
[#Racah-Images Images]
[#Racah-Maps Maps]
[#Racah-Description Description]
[#Racah-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Racah-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Racah-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Racah-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Racah-Bibliography Bibliography]
external image normal_racah-clem1.jpgClementine

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Frame 59, a photograph made by Zond 8, shows Racah just leftward of the frame's central cross.
Research: Danny Caes

Maps

(LAC zone 86C4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Wikipedia

Racah

Additional Information


Nomenclature

  • Named for Giulio Racah (1909 - August 28, 1965), an Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician. Racah's research was mainly in the fields of quantum physics and atomic spectroscopy. He first devised a systematic general procedure for classifying the energy levels of open shell atoms, which remains to this day the accepted technique for practical calculations of atomic structure. In 1958 he was awarded the Israel Prize for lifetime contribution to physics.
  • Racah was among the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in Menzel, 1971.
  • In the planning for Apollo 8, the first manned circumlunar mission (1968), this crater (which did not then have an official name) was referred to informally as"Shepard" (source: Phil Stooke's LPOD).


LPOD Articles


Bibliography




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