Schumacher

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Schumacher

Lat: 42.4°N, Long: 60.7°E, Diam: 60 km, Depth: 1.81 km, Rükl: 16

Table of Contents

[#Schumacher Schumacher]
[#Schumacher-Images Images]
[#Schumacher-Maps Maps]
[#Schumacher-Description Description]
[#Schumacher-Description: Elger Description: Elger]
[#Schumacher-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]
[#Schumacher-Additional Information Additional Information]
[#Schumacher-Nomenclature Nomenclature]
[#Schumacher-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]
[#Schumacher-Bibliography Bibliography]
external image Schumacher_LO_iv_191_h2.jpg
LOIV 191 H2

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

(LAC zone 28A4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Elger

(IAU Directions) SCHUMACHER.--A large irregular ring-plain, 28 miles in diameter, associated with the N. wall of Messala, and having other smaller rings adjoining it on the W. and N. The interior seems to be devoid of detail.

Description: Wikipedia

Schumacher

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
  • Westfall, 2000: 1.81 km


Nomenclature

Heinrich Christian Schumacher (September 3, 1780 – December 28, 1850), German astronomer. He was director of the Mannheim observatory from 1813 to 1815, and then became professor of astronomy in Copenhagen. He published Ephemerides (11 parts, 1822–1832) and the journal Astronomische Nachrichten (founded by himself in 1821 and still being published), of which he edited thirty-one volumes.

LPOD Articles


Bibliography




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