10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WALLED PLAIN»
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Lunar Meteoroid Impacts and How to Observe Them
Size (km) Size (mi) 39 Endymion Crater – 7 53.6°N 56.5°E 125 78 40 Macrobius
Prominent crater 3,650 26 21.3°N 46.0°E 64 40 41 Piccolomini Very prominent
crater 3,825 58 29.7°S 32.2°E 88 55 42 Fracastorius Walled plain – 58 21.2°S ...
Resembles a large thin cheese.' 28. Grea£ walled plain ; 134 miles ; 9,000 feet.
Floor 13,000 square miles area, very varied in colour. Walls would be invisible to
spectator in centre of enclosure. Plate XII. Thirteenth and fourteenth days. 30.
Agrippa is a walled plain, about 45 km (28 miles) across, characterized by rather
steep terraced walls that usually appear quite bright. The walls rise to more than
2000 m (7000 ft) above Agrippa's floor. The wall on the west side is fairly straight
...
When Airy lies on the morning terminator, the low angle of illumination brings into
view a large walled plain - designated Airy M, 100 km wide - at ... though far more
prominent but unnamed walled plain lies farther south along the terminator.
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The Moon, and the Condition and Configurations of Its Surface
Hainzel C is on the border of a great mountain circle or enclosed plain, which,
particularly at the terminator, bears the aspect of a vast walled-plain. Its western
border is a great curved mountain range extending south of C and rising at the
point ...
Edmund Neison, Edmund Neville Nevill, 1876
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Report of the ... Meeting
Is this the remnant of a large walled plain which included a crater, nearly central,
within it ? Its position with regard to Ptole- inceus is interesting, especially as the
diverse groups on and near Hipparchus intervene. Its ancient character may be ...
British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1869
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Report of the Annual Meeting
The walled plain " Rosse " is situated in the south-east quadrant of the moon's
surface. It has hitherto been unrepresented, and is one of the largest
individualized localities on the lunar disk unappropiated. It was first noticed by Mr
. Birt, ...
British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting, 1864
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Thirty-Eighth Meeting ; Held At Norwich In August 1868: 37
Is this the remnant of a large walled plain which included a crater, nearly central,
within it ? Its position with regard to Ptolemreus is interesting, especially as the
diverse groups on and near Ilipparchus intervene. Its ancient character may be ...
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Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science
Immediately to the west of the Mare, is the beautiful walled plain of Lungrenus,
which in the completeness of the example which it offers of eruptive action may
be considered the Copernicus of this region of the moon, and indeed it is not
much ...
The large volcano, or walled plain,. Crater ls crowded upon crater. The crater
Copernicus, which constitutes the principal object in this. towering twenty-three
thousand eight hundred feet above the plain below, is appropriately called
Newton.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WALLED PLAIN»
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Moon's craters at their best in night sky this weekend
If you look at the terminator, the dividing line between light and shadow, you'll see the gigantic walled plain Ptolemaeus near the center of the moon, with its ... «CBS News, Feb 13»
Moon's Craters at Their Best in Night Sky
If you look at the terminator, the dividing line between light and shadow, you'll see the gigantic walled plain Ptolemaeus near the center of the moon, with its ... «Space.com, Jan 13»
Crater Curtius courtesy of Damian Peach
This normal looking crater with the brilliant west wall is equally ancient crater Curtius. ... On the southern edge of Mare Nubium is the old walled plain Pitatus. «Universe Today, Nov 12»
Plato Crater – Credit: Damian Peach
Caught on the southeast wall is Rutherford with its central peak and crater Porter ... As an ancient mountain-walled plain that sits proudly at the northern edge of ... «Universe Today, Sep 12»
Crater Petavius – Credit: Damian Peach
This large round crater is a mountain walled plain filled with lava flow. With the ... Look for its double southern wall and multiple crater strikes along its edges. «Universe Today, Aug 12»
Credit: Starry Night Software
It is a huge walled plain 95 miles (153 km.) in diameter. Its flat floor appears to be the result of a lava flow in the aftermath of an asteroid impact. Alphonsus is a ... «Space.com, Jul 12»
Crater Julius Caesar – Credit: Wes Higgins
Continue to follow the edge of Mare Humorum around the wall known as ... on a crater hop, the next feature you will en-counter is the walled plain of Hevelius. «Universe Today, Jun 12»
Hadley Rille - Credit: Damien Peach
Breaking its wall on the north is Fernelius, but sharing the southeast ... As a huge mountain-walled plain, Clavius will appear near the terminator tonight in the ... «Universe Today, May 12»
View from space: Earth from the moon's far side
This crater is located in moon's southern hemisphere, near the south lunar pole, to the west of the large walled plain Zeeman and due south of the crater ... «EarthSky, Apr 12»
NGC 2539 - Credit: Palomar Observatory Courtesy of Caltech
Notice also that its northeast wall is broken by a younger crater – Lame. ... Further south than Vendelinus, look for another large, mountain-walled plain named ... «Universe Today, Mar 12»
