lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Pickering. Asteroid 784 Pickeringia "Pickering (lunar crater)"...
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Fort Pickering (Memphis, Tennessee), a Confederate fort in the American Civil War Pickering (lunar crater) Pickering (Martian crater) Pickering (surname)...
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Eratosthenes crater is a relatively deep lunar impact crater that lies on the boundary between the Mare Imbrium and Sinus Aestuum mare regions. It forms...
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Charles Pickering (July 19, 1846 – February 3, 1919) was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering. Along with...
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William Henry Pickering (February 15, 1858 – January 16, 1938) was an American astronomer. Pickering constructed and established several observatories...
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explain their origins. Most lunar scientists will acknowledge that transient events such as outgassing and impact cratering do occur over geologic time...
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Messier is a relatively young lunar impact crater located on the Mare Fecunditatis. The crater has a discernible oblong shape that is not caused by foreshortening...
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Hipparchus is the degraded remnant of a lunar impact crater. It was named after the Greek astronomer, geographer and mathematician Hipparchus. It is located...
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Schröter is a lunar impact crater near the mid-part of the Moon, on the eastern Mare Insularum. It was named after German astronomer Johann Hieronymus...
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Theaetetus is a lunar impact crater that is located to the southeast of the crater Cassini near the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium. It was named after the...
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