Buys-Ballot

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Buys-Ballot, immediately north-northwest of Lacus Luxuriae

Lat: 20.81°N, Long: 174.71°E, Diam: 66.38 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

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Left: LROC view (Buys-Ballot is the odd-looking crater at bottom in image, while the top crater is Buys-Ballot Z).
Right: Clementine UV-VIS Multispectral Mosaic: Mercator projection dynamically created by USGS lunar Web Map Service. Click here for a USGS-generated list of all IAU-named features with centers in the current field.
The dark presence south-southeast of Buys-Ballot is Lacus Luxuriae.

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Buys-Ballot

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Nomenclature

  • Named for Christoph Hendrik Diederik Buys-Ballot (1817-1890), a Dutch meteorologist.
  • Buys-Ballot was in the long list of farside names approved by the IAU in 1970 and published in Menzel, 1971.
  • Buys-Ballot's location is immediately north of one of the few officially named lakes on the moon's far side: Lacus Luxuriae. The other two officially named farside lakes are Lacus Oblivionis and Lacus Solitudinis.


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