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    Peirescius is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southeastern part of the Moon. It is close enough to the limb that it appears significantly...
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  • Peiresc, an outer main-belt asteroid named after the astronomer Peirescius (crater), a crater located in the southeastern part of the Moon, also named after...
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    lunar impact crater that is located in the southeastern part of the Moon, to the south of the crater Peirescius. To the northwest lie the craters Vega and...
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    is the slightly smaller Peirescius. About one and a half crater diameters to the west is the long Vallis Rheita. This crater has been worn and eroded...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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    his work. Peiresc was honored in 1935 by the naming of the lunar crater Peirescius (46.5S, 67.6E, 61 km diameter); and in 1993 by the naming of the asteroid...
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    (1580–1637) – abbot and astronomer who discovered the Orion Nebula; lunar crater Peirescius named in his honor Stephen Joseph Perry (1833–1889) – Jesuit astronomer...
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  • Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, discoverer of the Orion Nebula, after whom the lunar impact crater Peirescius is named...
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    crater Kirch. On December 28, 1985, Harold Hill observed an extraordinary brilliance at the mid-section of the east inner wall of crater Peirescius....
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