Harding
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Harding
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Lat: 43.53°N, Long: 71.62°W, Diam: 22.57 km, Depth: 2.1 km, Rükl: 8 |
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(IAU Directions) HARDING.--A small ring-plain E. of Gerard, remarkable for the peculiar form of its shadow at sunrise, and for the ridges in its vicinity.
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Additional Information
- IAU page: Harding
- Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
- Westfall, 2000: 2.1 km
- From the shadows in LO-IV-183H, Harding is at least 1800 m deep.
- Satellite crater Harding A is on the ALPO list of bright ray craters.
- TSI = 25, CPI = 20, FI = 20; MI =65 Smith and Sanchez, 1973
- Strange looking crater with "northeastern double rim" SSW of Harding (see: http://bit.ly/2w267sx ). A possible case of CC? (Concentric Craters). - DannyCaes Sep 17, 2017
Nomenclature
- Named for Karl Ludwig Harding(1765-1834), a German astronomer. Harding began his career as an assistant to selenographer Johann Schröter, later working for Gauss and eventually publishing a catalog of 120,000 stars. He also discovered the third known asteroid, Juno.
- According to Whitaker (p. 219), this name was introduced by Mädler.
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