Lomonosov-Fleming Basin

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Lomonosov-Fleming Basin

(unofficial name)

Lat: 19°N, Long: 105°E, Main ring diam: 620 km, Depth: 2.44 km, Rukl: farside

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Left:Clementine, Clementine LIDAR Altimeter texture from PDS Map-a-Planet remapped to north-up aerial view by LTVT. The dot is the center position and the white circle the main ring position from Chuck Wood's Impact Basin Database. Grid spacing = 10 degrees.
Right: Annotated Clementine view of region using the LTVT software.





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Maps

(LAC zone 46C4)

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
Proposed
Pre-Nectarian
3
620 km



Description


Additional Information


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 Lomonosov and Fleming.

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Bibliography

Remote sensing studies of the Lomonosov-Fleming region of the Moon (PDF) Giguere T.A., Hawke B.R., Blewett D.T., Bussey D.B.J., Lucey P.G., Smith G.A., Spudis P.D., and Taylor G.J., (2003) J. Geophys. Res. 108, E11, 5118, doi:10.1029/2003JE002069