Freundlich-Sharonov Basin

Freundlich-Sharonov Basin

(unofficial name)

Lat: 18.5°N, Long: 175°E, Main ring diam: 600 km, Depth: 3.6-6.0 km, Rukl: farside

Left: Clementine, Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from PDS Map-a-Planet remapped to north-up aerial view by LTVT. The red dot is the central position and the white circle the main ring position from Chuck Wood's Impact Basin Database. Grid spacing = 10 degrees.
Right: LROC WAC image centred on 180 degrees longitude.

Images

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Maps

(LAC zone 50D4)

Basin Classification

(description of terms and most numeric basin data from Wood, C.A. (2004) Impact Basin Database)
 
 

Certainty of Existence	USGS Age	Wilhelms Age Group	Ring Diameters	Mare Thickness	Mascon
Uncertain	Pre-Nectarian	8	640 km	1.6 km	Yes; +19 mG gravity anomaly

Description

Additional Information

The centre of this basin seems to be Lacus Luxuriae.
 
 

Nomenclature

Basins filled with maria are named for the mare, and basins that were previously recognized as craters still bear the crater name. Basins located between craters have the names of the two opposite craters with a hyphen in between, in this case Freundlich and Sharonov.
  The name Freundlich-Sharonov Basin seems to be a rather difficult one to write, because it is mentioned (several times) as Freundlich-Sharanov Basin in Charles J. Byrne's The Far Side of the Moon: a Photographic Guide (Springer, 2008).
 
 

LROC Articles

Hunting for Ancient Lunar Impact Basins (Figure 1 of this article shows the Freundlich-Sharonov Basin).

Bibliography

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