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	Copernicus crater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Copernicus is a large young crater visible with binoculars slightly northwest of the center of the Moon's Earth-facing hemisphere (20°W by 9°N).
		Copernicus is relatively young for a lunar crater, formed nearly a billion years ago by a colossal impact.
		The formation of this crater marks the beginning of the Copernician period of the lunar geologic timescale.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Copernicus_crater.html (270 words)

	Copernicus (lunar crater) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The crater Copernicus is estimated to be about 800 million years old, the time marking the start of the ''Copernican era'' in the Lunar geologic timescale.
		The crater rays spread as far as 800 kilometers across the surrounding ''maria'', overlaying rays from the Aristarchus and Kepler craters.
		In 1966 the crater was photographed from an oblique angle by the Lunar Orbiter 2.
	copernicus.subdomain.de /Copernicus_%28Lunar_crater%29 (558 words)

	Copernicus, Nicolaus - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Copernicus, Nicolaus
		Copernicus also held to the notion of spheres, in which the planets were supposed to travel.
		Copernicus was born in Toruń, on the River Vistula, Poland.
		Copernicus was at last persuaded to publish by friends and by his young pupil Rheticus, who issued an account of the new system under the title Narratio Prima de Libris Revolutionum.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Copernicus%2c+Nicolaus (901 words)

	Definition of Copernicus (Lunar crater)
		Copernicus is a prominent lunar impact crater located on the eastern Oceanus Procellarum.
		South of the crater is the Mare Insularum, and to the south-south west is Reinhold crater.
		Later the crater was nick-named "the Monarch of the Moon" by Thomas Gwyn Elger.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Copernicus_%28Lunar_crater%29 (543 words)

	Copernicus (crater) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Copernicus_(crater).html (513 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mare Imbrium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The word crater may refer to A landform resembling a pit or depression in the topography that can be formed in several ways: a meteorite impact with another body can cause an impact crater, an electrical discharge such as lightning may form a crater-like pit, volcanic activity may form...
		Archimedes is a large lunar impact crater on the eastern edges of the Mare Imbrium.
		Plato is the maria-surfaced remains of a lunar impact crater.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mare-Imbrium (1228 words)

	sinus aestuum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		To short distance we have Copernicus, crater structure that with a diameter of 90 km and a terracing imposing system walls that are raised until 3800 mt of height showing in the lunar landscape of this region.
		The Copernicus crater when it's far away from the line of the lunar terminator (that separates the illuminated part by the Sun from that in shadow and along which can be carried out detailed observations of the finest details of the lunar surface) it's showing a bright rays system.
		The adjacent plains are to north the Imbrium sea beyond the Stadius and Eratosthenes craters; to the west oceanus the Procellarum after exceeded the Gambart hills; to south the northern extremity of the Nubium sea beyond the Turner crater; finally to east the Vaporum sea (the 30.000 kmq) and sinus Medii (25.000 kmq).
	www.rccr.cremona.it /monografie/luna/sinaest.htm.htm (660 words)

	pajan99
		Much of the material ejected from Copernicus was a fine spray of minute glassy particles that smothered the surrounding landscape and produced conspicuous long bright rays, but some large fragments of excavated crust formed their own small secondary impact craters in a mechanical (rather than explosive) fashion.
		Copernicus is surrounded by a reasonable amount of detail in the maps by Hewelcke and Grimaldi, and charts by Anton Schyrleus (de Rheita) published in 1645 and Francesco Fontana in 1646 also depict the extensive ray systems around Copernicus, in addition to ray systems around other craters.
		Copernicus was closely scrutinised by the German selenographer Philip Fauth (1867-1942), who produced an intricate chart of the crater that holds up very well when compared with modern maps of the feature.
	website.lineone.net /~petergrego/pajan99.htm (1664 words)

	Associazione Lunar Explorer Italia - Fotografie ed Immagini della Luna, Marte, Il Sistema Solare e l'Universo - Before ...
		Oblique view of Copernicus Crater from Lunar Orbiter 2-67 visteCaption NASA originale:"Lunar Orbiter 2 oblique northward view of the interior of the 100 Km diameter Copernicus Crater on the Moon.
		Bruce Crater and Sinus Medii-51 visteCaption NASA originale:"Lunar Orbiter 3 oblique view of Bruce Crater in the foreground and the Sinus Medii Mare plain on the Moon.
		The approximately 240 Km crater at the upper center of the image is located at 20° S, 130° E and exhibits a flat, dark infilled floor and prominent central peak.
	www.lunexit.it /gallery/thumbnails.php?album=60 (1013 words)

	ASTR 130, O'CONNELL. LUNAR TOPOGRAPHY
		The crater is 107 km in diameter and is centered at 9.7 N, 20.1 W. In the foreground is Mare Imbrium, peppered with secondary crater chains and elongated craters due to the Copernicus impact.
		The large crater near the center of the image is the 20 km diameter Pytheas, at 20.5 N, 20.6 W. At the upper edge of Mare Imbrium are mountains (Montes Carpatus) produced by the Imbrium impact.
		The crater is centered near the middle of the image and stretches over half the width of the frame but is barely visible due to more recent impact activity since it was formed.
	www.astro.virginia.edu /class/oconnell/astr130/moontop-130.html (1123 words)

	Our Battered Moon
		Craters are found not only on the Moon but on all of the “rocky” planets: Mercury, Venus, and Mars.
		This crater is nearly a mile wide (1.6 km) and is 570 feet deep (174 m).
		Comparing craters on Earth and other celestial bodies is a great way to explore the effects of wind and water and the geologic activity that have taken place on Earth.
	www.nsta.org /main/news/stories/science_and_children.php?news_story_ID=49677 (755 words)

	Hitchhiker's Guide to Rukl Chart 31
		The ejecta blanket has overridden much of the original surface just outside the crater, and extends for hundreds of kilometers in a bright ray structure that is prominent at high sun angles.
		Copernicus is visible to the naked eye, from Earth, as an albedo feature, when well illuminated.
		July 14, 1997: The domes around Copernicus are showing well, along with all the other really spiffy detailed stuff (craterlets and tiny rilles) but my "new" observation for the night was mostly tonal ranges; the way the ejecta seems to have formed light and dark smatterings for such a great distance.
	www.shallowsky.com /moon/rukl31.html (714 words)

	Ranger program - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The new images revealed that craters caused by impact were the dominant features of the Moon's surface, even in the seemingly smooth and empty plains.
		Great craters were marked by small ones, and the small with tiny impact pockmarks, as far down in size as could be discerned -- about 50 centimeters (16 inches).
		The light-colored streaks radiating from Copernicus and a few other large craters turned out to be chains and nets of small craters and debris blasted out in the primary impacts.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/ranger_program (1160 words)

	Crater Copernicus
		Copernicus is a relatively young crater lying near the edge of Mare Insularum.
		Three peaks dominate the center of the crater and rise to a height of approximately 3,600 ft. (1200 meters).
		Copernicus is easily observed with the aid of binoculars and is spectacular even in small telescopes.
	www.waid-observatory.com /moon-copernicus-2003-09-08.html (75 words)

	Copernicus (Lunar crater) - TheBestLinks.com - Apollo 12, Crater, Italian, Latitude, ...
		Copernicus (Lunar crater), Apollo 12, Copernicus, Crater, Italian, Latitude...
		The Copernicus crater was given its name by Giovanni Riccioli, an Italian Jesuit who was a strong opponent of the heliocentric system revived by Copernicus.
		Hence the crater named to honor Niklas Copernicus is located in the Oceanus Procellarum.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Copernicus___28__Lunar_crater__29__.html (515 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Carpathian Mountains (Moon) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The surface to the north of the range is nearly level lunar mare, broken only by the occasional wrinkle-ridge or minor impact crater.
		About 100 kilometers south of the mountains is the well-known Copernicus crater, and the irregular outer ramparts of this crater stretch almost to the foothills of the Carpatus range.
		Also of note is the smaller Gay-Lussac crater, which is attached to the southern part of the range.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Carpathian-Mountains-(Moon) (508 words)

	Lunar Orbiter: Impact Crater Geology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Impact craters are produced by the collision of a meteorite or comet with the surface of the Moon, which ejects material and leaves behind a crater.
		The crater Copernicus, 93 kilometers in diameter, is one of the most prominent features on the Moon's nearside.
		The crater Tycho, 85 kilometers in diameter, is the youngest large impact crater on the Moon's nearside.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/orbiter/orbiter-craters.html (648 words)

	Copernicus (inslagkrater) -- [[Image:Copernicus_crater_AS12-52-7739.jpg\|thum... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		[[Image:Copernicus_crater_AS12-52-7739.jpgthumbright300pxCopernicus krater gefotografeerd vanuit Apollo 12]] Copernicus is één van de bekendste inslagkraters op de Maan genoemd naar Nicolaus Copernicus.
		Copernicus heeft een diameter van 93 km en een diepte van 3700 meter.
		Copernicus is, geologisch gezien, een zeer recente inslagkrater.
	copernicus-maan.nl.tracking24.net (135 words)

	Copernicus (Lunar crater)
		Although Copernicus is relatively young for a lunar crater, it was formed nearly a billion years ago by a colossal impact.
		Tycho, with its far reaching rays, is the youngest large crater on the nearside.
		Lunar Orbiter 2 oblique northward view of the interior of the 100 km diameter Copernicus crater on the Moon.
	www.logicjungle.com /wiki/Copernicus_%28Lunar_crater%29 (313 words)

	Limb of Copernicus Impact Crater
		This image of Copernicus was acquired on the Lunar Orbiter 5 Mission.
		Copernicus is 93 kilometers wide and is located within the Mare Imbrium Basin, northern nearside of the Moon (10° N, 20° degrees W.).
		Rays from the ejecta are superposed on all other surrounding terrains which places the crater in its namesake age group: the Copernican system, established as the youngest assemblage of rocks on the Moon (Shoemaker and Hackman, 1962, The Moon: London, Academic Press, p.289-300).
	www.etsimo.uniovi.es /solar/cap/moon/coper2.htm (110 words)

	A Clementine Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This 95-km crater, believed to be approximately 800 million years old, is located near the center of the lunar nearside and exhibits prominent rays extending in all directions.
		Impact craters can be used as windows into the interior and this multispectral image of Copernicus provides dramatic new information about how materials are excavated, melted, mixed, and deposited in a major impact event.
		The extensive heterogeneity around the wall of the crater indicates materials are not intimately mixed in spite of the huge energy involved during crater formation.
	www.nrl.navy.mil /clementine/clem_collect/copern.html (274 words)

	APOD: 2001 August 9 - Tycho and Copernicus: Lunar Ray Craters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		During partial lunar phases, the craters along the terminator are cast in dramatic relief by strong shadows.
		craters are relatively young as their rays overlay the lunar terrain.
		Crater Copernicus, surrounded by dark mare which contrast nicely with its bright rays, is 93 kilometres in diameter.
	www.star.ucl.ac.uk /~apod/apod/ap010809.html (169 words)

	Considering Copernicus
		The crater is Gay Lussac, and the line is a rille (rima) named after the crater (which is in turn named after a French physical chemist of some renown).
		Then if you wander south nearly two Copernicus diameters and start heading toward the terminator, you'll see a very distinct crater about half the diameter of our subject (this smaller crater is named Reinhold, after a German astronomer) and continue to the terminator, you might catch sight of a little dome.
		Copernicus has a very distinct and crowded ray system, but that won't really start to show for another few days.
	ephemeris.sjaa.net /0204/f.html (749 words)

	Moon Clips of Copernicus and Tycho
		They show the crater Copernicus from a waning gibbous moon phase to a waning crescent moon phase.
		Notice how the appearance of the crater changes dramatically from when the sun's light shines directly on the crater to when it is nearly fully in shadow.
		Single craters were clipped out of the images so we could compare the look of their features during different phases.
	hou.lbl.gov /~vhoette/Explorations/MoonClips/index.html (459 words)

	ipedia.com: Copernicus crater Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		]] Copernicus, named after Nicolaus Copernicus, is one of the more prominent craters on the Moon.
		Copernicus is a large young crater visible with binoculars slightly northwest of the center of the Moo...
		Copernicus, named after Nicolaus Copernicus, is one of the more prominent craters on the Moon.
	www.ipedia.com /copernicus_crater.html (175 words)

	The case for a Dome near Copernicus
		Also notice the structure above the crater is aligned with local vertical, at a 45 degree angle to "grain" of the image.
		The "S" shaped string of craters is highly unusual, but has been noted the vicinity of other "dome" like structures.
		Since it has an architecture entirely consistent with Hoagland's proposed (and later reinforced by Fiertek) "Sinus Medii Dome", it could be nothing less than the "smoking gun" that confirms the existence of both.
	www.lunaranomalies.com /coper.htm (609 words)

	Exploring Copernicus - In memory of Gene Shoemaker by Jim Scotti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The subject is a future expedition into the lunar crater Copernicus - a crater some 90 kilometers in diameter and one of the most prominent viewed through telescopes from Earth.
		The crater floor is some 70 kilometers across and the walls rise some 5-7 kilometers above the floor.
		Instead of producing a full panorama of the crater directly, I do so by using the reflection in Gene's visor to show the rest of the crater along with (presumably) the artist.
	www.lpl.arizona.edu /%7Ejscotti/artwork.dir/copernicus.html (276 words)

	Observing the Moon with the Hubble Space Telescope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is the first image, which targets Copernicus crater, shows that the initial pointing (under gyro control) was right on.
		This is the second image, which shows Copernicus off-center-- we weren't able to exactly compensate for HST's motion around the Earth.
		Note that the inner slopes of the craters are blue-- moonquakes send stuff sliding down the steep sides of the craters, exposing fresh material.
	www.towson.edu /~astorrs/moon.htm (477 words)

	JSC Digital Image Collection
		Oblique view of the large crater Copernicus on the lunar nearside, as photographed from the Apollo 17 spacecraft in lunar orbit.
		This view is looking generally southwest toward the crater on the horizon.
		The coordinates of the center of Copernicus are approximetely 20 degrees west longitude and 9.5 degrees north latitude.
	images.jsc.nasa.gov /luceneweb/caption_direct.jsp?photoId=AS17-145-22287 (64 words)

	APOD: 2001 May 13 - Crater Copernicus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
		Copernicus is a large young crater visible with binoculars slightly northwest of the center of the Moon's Earth-facing hemisphere.
		Copernicus is relatively young for a lunar crater, it was formed nearly a billion years ago by a
	antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap010513.html (114 words)

	Apollo 14 Landing Site Overview
		The landing site is located in a broad, shallow valley between radial ridges of the Fra Mauro Formation and approximately 500 kilometers from the edge of the Imbrium Basin.
		The major crater Copernicus lies 360 kilometers to the north, and bright ray material that emanates from Copernicus Crater covers much of the landing site region.
		In the immediate landing site area, an important feature is the young, very blocky Cone Crater, which is approximately 340 meters in diameter and which penetrates the regolith on the ridge to the east of the landing site.
	www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/Apollo14/A14_lsite.html (413 words)

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