Difference between revisions of "Tsiolkovskiy-Stark Basin"
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[http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Tsiolkovskiy-Stark LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Tsiolkovskiy%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images]<br /> <br /> | [http://www.lpod.org/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=Tsiolkovskiy-Stark LPOD Photo Gallery] [http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/srch_nam.shtml?Tsiolkovskiy%7C0 Lunar Orbiter Images]<br /> <br /> | ||
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==Description: Elger== | ==Description: Elger== | ||
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==Additional Information== | ==Additional Information== | ||
* Mare area of 12,600 km^2 according to measurements by [http://www.lpod.org/cwm/DataStuff/MareAreas.htm Jim Whitford-Stark]. | * Mare area of 12,600 km^2 according to measurements by [http://www.lpod.org/cwm/DataStuff/MareAreas.htm Jim Whitford-Stark]. | ||
Latest revision as of 03:20, 16 April 2018
Contents
Tsiolkovskiy-Stark Basin
(unofficial name)| Lat: 15°S, Long: 128°E, Main ring diam: 700 km, Depth: km, Rukl: |
Clementine data: altitude-coded shaded relief map
Images
LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images
Maps
(LAC zone 83C3) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Basin Classification
(description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) Impact Basin Database)
| Certainty of Existence |
USGS Age |
Wilhelms Age Group |
Ring Diameters |
Mare Thickness |
Mascon |
| Uncertain |
pre-Nectarian |
2 |
700 km |
1.1 km |
-51 mG gravity anomaly |
Description
Description: Elger
Additional Information
- Mare area of 12,600 km^2 according to measurements by Jim Whitford-Stark.
Nomenclature
Basins filled with maria are named for the mare, and basins that were previously recognized as craters still bear the crater name. Basins located between craters have the names of the two opposite craters with a hyphen in between, in this case Tsiolkovskiy and Stark.
LPOD Articles
Bibliography
