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Posidonius (crater)

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Posidonius is a lunar impact crater that is located on the north-eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis, to the south of Lacus Somniorum. [1]

23 relations: Albedo, Cambridge University Press, Chacornac (crater), Daniell (crater), Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Impact crater, Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Johannes Hevelius, Jonathan's Space Report, Kalmbach Publishing, Lacus Somniorum, Linné (crater), Lunar craters, Lunar Orbiter 4, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mare Serenitatis, Michael van Langren, NASA, Posidonius, Rille, Sterling Publishing, United States Geological Survey, Wrinkle ridge.

Albedo

Albedo (albedo, meaning "whiteness") is the measure of the diffuse reflection of solar radiation out of the total solar radiation received by an astronomical body (e.g. a planet like Earth).

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Chacornac (crater)

Chacornac is an irregular lunar impact crater attached to the southeast rim of the crater Posidonius.

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Daniell (crater)

Daniell is a lunar impact crater located in the southern half of the Lacus Somniorum.

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Giovanni Battista Riccioli

Giovanni Battista Riccioli (17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order.

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Impact crater

An impact crater is an approximately circular depression in the surface of a planet, moon, or other solid body in the Solar System or elsewhere, formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller body.

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Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt

Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (25 October 1825 in Eutin, Germany – 7 February 1884 in Athens, Greece) was a German astronomer and geophysicist.

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Johannes Hevelius

Johannes Hevelius Some sources refer to Hevelius as Polish.

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Jonathan's Space Report

Jonathan's Space Report (JSR) is a newsletter about the space age.

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Kalmbach Publishing

Kalmbach Publishing Co. is an American publisher of books and magazines, many of them railroad-related, located in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

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Lacus Somniorum

Lacus Somniorum is a plain located in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side.

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Linné (crater)

Linné is a small lunar impact crater located in the western Mare Serenitatis.

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Lunar craters

Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon.

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Lunar Orbiter 4

Lunar Orbiter 4 was an unmanned U.S. spacecraft, part of the Lunar Orbiter Program, designed to orbit the Moon, after the three previous orbiters had completed the required needs for Apollo mapping and site selection.

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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit.

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Mare Serenitatis

Mare Serenitatis ("Sea of Serenity") is a lunar mare located to the east of Mare Imbrium on the Moon.

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Michael van Langren

Michael Florent van Langren (bapt. 27 April 1598 Amsterdam – May 1675 Brussels) was an astronomer and cartographer of the Low Countries in the service of the Spanish Monarchy.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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Posidonius

Posidonius (Ποσειδώνιος, Poseidonios, meaning "of Poseidon") "of Apameia" (ὁ Ἀπαμεύς) or "of Rhodes" (ὁ Ῥόδιος) (c. 135 BCE – c. 51 BCE), was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria.

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Rille

Rille (German for 'groove') is typically used to describe any of the long, narrow depressions in the surface of the Moon that resemble channels.

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Sterling Publishing

Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. is a publisher of a broad range of subject areas, with multiple imprints and more than 5,000 titles in print.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Wrinkle ridge

A wrinkle ridge is a type of feature commonly found on lunar maria.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posidonius_(crater)

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