Sasserides
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Sasserides
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Lat: 39.1°S, Long: 9.3°W, Diam: 90 km, Depth: 1.76 km,[/R%C3%BCkl%2064 Rükl: 64] |
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[#Sasserides Sasserides]
[#Sasserides-Images Images]
[#Sasserides-Maps Maps]
[#Sasserides-Description Description]
[#Sasserides-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Sasserides-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Sasserides-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Sasserides-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Sasserides-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Sasserides-Bibliography Bibliography]
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Images
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Maps
([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 112A4) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Elger
([/IAU%20Directions IAU Directions]) SASSERIDES.--A formation of irregular shape, with very lofty walls, situated amid the confusion of ring-plains, craters, crater-pits, &c., in the region N. of [/Tycho Tycho], some of which are fully as deserving of a distinct name.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
- Westfall, 2000: 1.76 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 1.79 km
Nomenclature
- Gellio Sasceride (Sasserides) (1562 - 1612) was a Danish astronomer and doctor. Sasceride worked as an assistant to Tycho Brahe after studying under him. Sasceride was also friends with Galileo. In 1590, Sasceride had sent to Galileo the only copy of a book until then found in Italy detailing the heliocentric system.
- Sasserides A was called Barker by Hugh Percy Wilkins and Patrick Moore, but the I.A.U. did not accept that name.
- Barker was a contemporary English selenographer.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
Sasserides A ("Barker"): THE MOON by H.P.Wilkins and P.Moore.
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