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Vavilov (aka Fratres Vavilovi)

Possible oblique impact – downrange SW or NE, dark collar (impact melt like Tycho) most evident to ESE, width 0.6 crater diameter. [Kirata et al LPSC 30: 1350]
[/Central%20peak%20composition Central peak composition]: A, GNTA1, GNTA2, AGN ([/Tompkins%20%26%20Pieters%2C%201999 Tompkins & Pieters, 1999])
TSI = 30, CPI = 15, FI = 20; MI =65 [/Smith%20and%20Sanchez%2C%201973 Smith and Hartnell, 1973]

The IAU crater name honors two men:
- Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov (November 25, 1887 – January 26, 1943) was a prominent Russian botanist and geneticist best known for having identified the centres of origin of cultivated plants. He devoted his life to the study and improvement of wheat, corn, and other cereal crops that sustain the global population.
- Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (March 24, 1891 – January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences from July 1945 until his death. His brother Nikolai Vavilov was a famous Russian geneticist. Vavilov founded the Soviet school of physical optics, known by his works in luminescence.
Vavilov was among the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in [/Menzel%2C%201971 Menzel, 1971].
Called Fratres Vavilovi on the First and Second Complete Moon Map, 1967/ 1969 (Shternberg Astronomy Institute). Research: Danny Caes.
In the planning for Apollo 8, the first manned circumlunar mission (1968), this crater (which did not then have an official name) was referred to informally as Debus, a name subsequently approved for a completely [/Debus different] farside crater. Also, between Vavilov and [/Kibal%27chich Kibal'chich] (west-northwest of Vavilov), is a currently unnamed crater which was then informally known as Shea. (source: Phil Stooke's LPOD).

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 * '''Vavilov''' was among the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in [/Menzel%2C%201971 Menzel, 1971].
 * Called '''''Fratres Vavilovi''''' on the <u>First</u> and <u>Second Complete Moon Map, 1967/</u> <u>1969</u> (Shternberg Astronomy Institute). Research: Danny Caes.
-* In the planning for Apollo 8, the first manned circumlunar mission (1968), this crater (which did not then have an official name) was referred to informally as '''''Debus''''', a name subsequently approved for a completely [/Debus different] farside crater. Also, between '''Vavilov''' and [/Kibal%27chich Kibal'chich] (west-northwest of '''Vavilov'''), is a currently unnamed crater which was then informally known as '''''Shea'''''. (source: [http://www.lpod.org/?m=20070909 Phil Stooke's LPOD]).
+* In the planning for Apollo 8, the first manned circumlunar mission (1968), this crater (which did not then have an official name) was referred to informally as '''''Debus''''', a name subsequently approved for a completely [/Debus different] farside crater. Also, between '''Vavilov''' and [/Kibal%27chich Kibal'chich] (west-northwest of '''Vavilov'''), is a currently unnamed crater which was then informally known as '''''Shea'''''. (source: [http://www2.lpod.org/wiki/September_9,_2007 Phil Stooke's LPOD]).
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