Lomonosov-Fleming Basin

Lomonosov-Fleming Basin

(unofficial name)

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

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.
 
 

LPOD Articles

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

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