Spurr

Spurr (in Palus Putredinis)

(formerly [/Archimedes Archimedes] M)

Lat: 27.89°N, Long: 1.28°W, Diam: 13.21 km, Depth: 0.1 km, [/R%C3%BCkl%2022 Rükl: 22]

Table of Contents

[#Spurr (in Palus Putredinis) Spurr (in Palus Putredinis)]

[#Spurr (in Palus Putredinis)-Images Images]

[#Spurr (in Palus Putredinis)-Maps Maps]

[#Spurr (in Palus Putredinis)-Description Description]

[#Spurr (in Palus Putredinis)-Description-Wikipedia Wikipedia]

[#Spurr (in Palus Putredinis)-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Spurr (in Palus Putredinis)-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Spurr (in Palus Putredinis)-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Spurr (in Palus Putredinis)-Bibliography Bibliography]

AS15-M-0418 Spurr, a "ruined" crater in the northwestern part of [/Palus%20Putredinis Palus Putredinis], near [/Archimedes Archimedes], is marked by a surviving crescent of unflooded crater rim. The ridges in the upper left are not named.

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

• Spurr was also captured by the panoramic ITEK camera of Apollo 15. AS15-P-9823 shows the arc of the shadowless Spurr beyond (to the right) of the frame's centre.
• Research orbital Apollo 15 photography: Danny Caes

Maps

([/LAC%20zone LAC zone] 41A3) LAC map Geologic map LM map LTO map

Description

Wikipedia

Spurr

Additional Information

• IAU page: Spurr
• Depth data from [/Kurt%20Fisher%20crater%20depths Kurt Fisher database]
  • Westfall, 2000: 0.1 km
• From the shadows in AS15-M-0418, the east wall rises to from 130-155 m above the central mare, increasing to about 180 m at one point in the southwest. On the west, the highest point (casting the longest shadow) is about 245 m above the mare. These values appear to be consistent with the 100-m contours (obtained by stereo mapping) on LTO 41A3. - JimMosher JimMosher

Nomenclature

• Named for Josiah Edward Spurr (1870-1950), an American geologist who wrote a multi-volume book about the Moon, called Geology Applied to Selenology.
• This replacement name for a formerly [/lettered%20crater lettered crater] was introduced on LTO-41A3 (Jan. 1974; for which it served as the chart title). Spurr appears in the cumulative list of approved names in [/IAU%20Transactions%20XVB IAU Transactions XVB] (1973), and does not appear in any of the previous Transactions, so the name appears to have been approved in that year. Biographical information was unofficially reported in [/Ashbrook%2C%201974 Ashbrook, 1974].- JimMosher JimMosher
• Although the LTO identifies the former name as [/Archimedes Archimedes] K it in fact appars to have been [/Archimedes Archimedes] M (as reported in Ashbrook).
• Not to be confused with Spur (craterlet near the site of Apollo 15), or Silver Spur (mountain near the site of Apollo 15).

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

• J. E. Spurr. Geology Applied to Selenology:
  • I. The Imbrian Plain Region of the Moon (Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Science Press Publishing Co., 1944), 112 pages.
  • II. The Features of the Moon (Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Science Press Publishing Co., 1945), 318 pages;
  • III. Lunar Catastrophic History (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press., 1948), 253 pages;
  • IV. The Shrunken Moon (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press., 1949), 207 pages.

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