Carrington
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Carrington
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Lat: 44.0°N, Long: 62.1°E, Diam: 30 km, Depth: 2.73 km, Rükl: 15 |
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(LAC zone 28A4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF
Description
Description: Elger
(IAU Directions) CARRINGTON.--A small ring-plain, belonging to the Messala group, adjoining Schumacher on the N.E.
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 2.73 km
Nomenclature
Richard Christopher Carrington (May 26, 1826 – November 27, 1875) was an English amateur astronomer who discovered the differential rotation of the sun by means of sunspot observations in 1863. In 1859 he and Richard Hodgson, another English amateur, independently made the first observations of a solar flare.
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Bibliography
R. C. Carrington in the Sourcebook Project (William R. Corliss)
- Page 47 in: Mysterious Universe, a handbook of astronomical anomalies (1979) :
- A Supposed New Interior Planet (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1859).
