17.Struve The western edge of Oceanus Procellarum, and the edge visible part of the Moon. Remarkable are the Rays starting at Olbers. BALBOA - Vasco N. de Balboa. (ca. 1475 - 1517) Spanish conquistador, was the first to cross the Panama istmus, and viewed the pasific, in 1513. Crater. (71 Km /42 Mi ø ) (Debt: 2,140 m /7,021 ft) (9.1°N, 83.2°W ) Lava flooded. BARTELS - Julius Bartels. (1899 - 1964) German geophysicist. Crater. (56 Km /33 Mi ø ) (24.5°N, 89.8°W) Tiny central mountain, worn and eroded wall, with craterlets. Only visible in its entirety from orbit. BRIGGS - Henry Briggs. (1556 - 1630) English mathematician. Notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms. Crater. (37 Km /22 Mi ø ) (Dept: 1,160 m /3,500 ft) (26°30′ N, 69°06′ W) Outer rim not circular, outward bulges to the north-northeast and southward. At the midpoint a central ridge, extending to the north. DALTON - John Dalton (1766 - 1844 ) English Chemist and Physicist. Crater. (63 Km /37 Mi ø ) (Debt: 2,150 m /7,054 ft) (17.1° N, 84.3°W). Circular formation, terraced walls, lava flooded floor. EINSTEIN - Albert Einstein. (1879 - 1955). German /Jewish physicist, and creator of the theory of special relativity and relativity. Crater. (190 Km /118 Mi ø ) Central mountain (45km /28 Mi ø ) (16.3°N, 88.7°W) Walled plain. Central mountain. This crater was only discovered as recently as 1952 by Patrick Moore. KRAFFT - Wolfgang L. Krafft (1743 - 1814) Russian physicist and astronomer of German decent. Crater. (53 Km /31 Mi ø ) (Dept: 1,250 m /3,800 ft) (16.6°N, 72.6°W) Floor lava covered. RUSSEL - 1.John Russell. (1745 - 1806) English Painter and amateur astronomer. 2.Henry N. Russell. .(1877 - 1957) American astronomer. Crater (105 Km /62 Mi ø ) (26.5°N, 75.4°W) Remains of an eroded walled plain. SELEUCUS - Seleucus of Babylon. (150BC) Greek/Babylonian astronomer. Teaching around 150 BC, he is known to have been a follower of the heliocentric theory of Aristarchus of Samos, which stated that the Earth rotated around its own axis which in turn revolved around the Sun. Crater (43 Km /23 Mi ø ) (Dept: 2,290 m /6,900 ft) (21.0°N, 66.6°W) Strongly pronounced crater. STRUVE - 1. Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve. (1793 - 1864). German/Russian astronomer, and first director of the Pulkovo Observatory. Observed double stars and was the first to determine a stellar parallax. 2. Otto Wilhelm Struve. (1819 - 1905) Son of Friedrich G. W. Struve, and also director of the Pulkovo Observatory, discoverer of a Uranus Moon. 3. Otto Struve (1897 - 1963) Russian - American astrophysicist, grandson of Friedrich G. W. Struve. Crater. (183 km /108 Mi ø ) (24°N, 77.0°W) Remains of a lava flooded walled plain.
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VOSKERENSKIY - Leonid A.Voskerenskiy. (Воскресенский, Леонид Александрович) (1913 - 1965) Russian rocket specialist. Crater. (51 km/30 Mi ø ) (Dept: 2,510 m /8235 ft ) (28.0°N, 88.1°W) Crater filled with lava. |