Bayer

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Bayer

Lat: 51.6°S, Long: 35.0°W, Diam: 47 km, Depth: 2.44 km, Rükl: 71

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Lunar Orbiter IV image IV-155-H1
Schiller at center, Bayer at lower right, with tiny crater within.

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Description


Description: Elger

(IAU Directions) BAYER.--This object, 29 miles in diameter, with a terraced border rising on the E. to a height of 8,000 feet above the floor, is so closely associated with Schiller, that it may almost be regarded as forming part of it. A long lofty mountain arm, apparently connected with the E. wall of the latter, runs from the W. side of Bayer towards the N.E. There is a crater on the W. side of the interior.

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Bayer

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
  • Westfall, 2000: 2.44 km
  • Viscardy, 1985: 2 km


Nomenclature

Johann Bayer (1572-1625) German lawyer, uranographer (celestial cartographer).

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