Ritter

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Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)

Lat: 2.0°N, Long: 19.2°E, Diam: 29 km, Depth: 1.3 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2035 Rükl: 35]

external image Ritter-LOIV-085-h1.jpgexternal image normal_Sabine-Ritter-AS10-32-4760.jpg
Left: LOIV-085-h1, Right: Apollo AS-10-32-4760, Sabine & Ritter

Table of Contents

[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair) Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)]
[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)-Images Images]
[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)-Maps Maps]
[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)-Description Description]
[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)-Lunar 100 Lunar 100]
[#Ritter (of the Ritter-Sabine pair)-Bibliography Bibliography]

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images
Ranger 8 - Camera A photographs

  • Superb Apollo 11 oblique view (AS11-41-6121, which is reproduced on pages 200-201 in Norman Mailer's splendid book MOONFIRE, THE EPIC JOURNEY OF APOLLO 11).


Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 60D3) LAC map Geologic map LM map AIC map

Description


Description: Elger

([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) RITTER.--Is very similar in every respect to [/Sabine Sabine]. A curved rill mentioned by Neison is on the N.W. side of the floor and is concentric with the wall. On the N. side of this ring-plain are three conspicuous craters, the two nearer being equal in size and the third much smaller.

Description: Wikipedia

Ritter

Additional Information

  • Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
    • Pike, 1976: 1.3 km
    • Westfall, 2000: 1.3 km
    • Viscardy, 1985: 1.3 km
    • Cherrington, 1969: 1.31 km
  • There's a very small crater between the two bowl-shaped craters Ritter B and C (immediately north-northwest of Ritter). This small crater is an interesting test object for observers of the moon with powerful telescopes. Research: Antoine Van Der Jeugt and Danny Caes.
  • TSI = 20, CPI = 25, FI = 25; MI = 70 [/Smith%20and%20Sanchez%2C%201973 Smith and Sanchez, 1973]


Nomenclature

  • The present [/IAU IAU] name honors two men:
    • Karl Ritter (August 7, 1779 – September 28, 1859), a German geographer.
    • Georg August Dietrich Ritter (December 11, 1826 – February 26, 1908), a German astrophysicist. He was a professor at RWTH Achen University.
  • The name Ritter (honoring Karl) was part of the original [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU nomenclature] of [/Blagg%20and%20M%C3%BCller Blagg and Müller] (catalog number 542), where the name is attributed to [/Beer%20and%20M%C3%A4dler Beer and Mädler].
  • Georg was added as a second honoree in Menzel, 1971, where little was known about him other than that he had written some paper in the 1880's.
  • According to Neison (1880), the [/British%20Association British Association] Lunar Committee ([/Birt Birt]?) at one time advocated changing the name Ritter B to J. Gwilt and Ritter C to G. Gwilt, possibly honoring English architect Joseph Gwilt and his son George Gwilt. Their suggestions were not adopted in later catalogues.


LPOD Articles

How Deep is that Hole? Something for everyone

Lunar 100

[/Lunar%20100 L38]: [/Sabine Sabine] & Ritter; Possible twin impacts.

Bibliography

  • Wood, C.A. 7/2006. False Volcanoes on the Moon. S&T 112:(1):66-67
  • Wood, C.A. Aug. 2003. Treasures of the Western Tranquillitatis. S&T 8/2003:120
  • Harold Hill. [/A%20Portfolio%20of%20Lunar%20Drawings A Portfolio of Lunar Drawings], pages 6, 7.




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