Gauricus
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Gauricus
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Lat: 33.8°S, Long: 12.6°W, Diam: 79 km, Depth: 2.37 km, Rükl: 64 |
LO-IV-119H The shadowed ridge on the left is the east rim of 88-km Wurzelbauer. There are many lettered satellite features of Gauricus, Wurzelbauer and Pitatus in this view.
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(IAU Directions) GAURICUS.--A large walled-plain S. of Pitatus, about 40 miles in diameter. The border is very irregular, and, according to Neison, consists on the W. of a precipitous cliff more than 9,000 feet high. It is surrounded by a number of large rings on the S., and has several considerable small depressions on its N. border. There is apparently no prominent detail on the floor. Schmidt shows some ridges and craterlets.
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Additional Information
Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 2.37 km
- Viscardy, 1985: 2.7 km
- Cherrington, 1969: 2.71 km
Nomenclature
- Luca Gaurico (in Latin, Lucas Gauricus) (March 12, 1476 - 1558) was an Italian astrologer, astronomer, and mathematician. He studied judicial astrology, a subject which concerned the fate of man as influenced by the stars.
- This name has continued unchanged since its original usage for this feature on Riccioli's map (Whitaker, p. 212).
- Crater Gauricus A seems to have been called Granollachs by... (?). Here we have a strange mystery in lunar nomenclature. The name "Granollachs" is included on a Spanish website dedicated to Wilkins's and Paluzie-Borrell's Spanish names, but it was not included in the book THE MOON by Wilkins and Moore.
- Granollachs (Vernet Granollachs) was born in 1421 and died in 1478.
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