Delmotte
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Delmotte
Lat: 27.1°N, Long: 60.2°E, Diam: 32 km, Depth: 4.36 km, Rükl: 26, Eratosthenian |
Images
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Are there really no orbital Apollo photographs of Delmotte? - DannyCaes May 9, 2015
Maps
(LAC zone 44B4) LAC map Geologic map
Description
Description: Wikipedia
Additional Information
- Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 4.36 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 3 km
- Central peak height
- Sekiguchi, 1972: <0.8 km - fatastronomer
- From the shadows in LO-IV-097H, Delmotte is 2300-3750 m deep. - JimMosher
Nomenclature
- Gabriel Delmotte (1876-1950); French astronomer who published Nouvelle Theorie des Cirques Lunaires in 1923.
- Named by Lamèch (Whitaker, p 228).
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Bibliography
About G.Delmotte's Aires Elliptiques (traces of possible ancient "ghost"-craters on the moon), see page 181 in the Dutch moonbook Op Ontdekking in het Maanland by A.J.M.Wanders (Het Spectrum, 1949). - DannyCaes May 9, 2015