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	Copernicus crater
		South of the crater is the Mare Insularum, and to the south-south west is Reinhold crater.
		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.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/c/co/copernicus_crater.html (444 words)

	Grimaldi (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It lies to the southwest of the Oceanus Procellarum, and southeast of Riccioli crater.
		Between Oceanus Procellarum is the Damoiseau crater, and to the north is Lohrmann crater.
		The approximate diameter of the inner rim is 140 kilometers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grimaldi_(crater) (300 words)

	Riccioli (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Riccioli is a large lunar impact crater located near the western limb of the Moon.
		To the southwest are the Hartwig and SchlÃ¼ter craters that lie on the northeast edge of Montes Cordillera, the ring-shaped range that surrounds Mare Orientale.
		Due to its location, the Riccioli crater appears strongly foreshortened and is viewed almost from the side.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Riccioli_(crater) (215 words)

	Olbers (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olbers is a lunar crater that lies at the west edge of the Oceanus Procellarum, near the western limb of the Moon.
		It lies to the northwest of Hevelius crater, and to the north of the indistinct Hedin crater formation.
		This crater possesses a relatively high albedo and is the focus of a prominent ray system that extends in all directions across the nearby surface.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Glushko_%28crater%29 (240 words)

	Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Analysis of craters and Moon rocks show that there was a late heavy bombardment by asteroids around the period 4000 to 3800 million years ago.
		This crater is located on the far side, near the south pole, and is some 2,240 km in diameter, and 13 km in depth.
		Some observers claimed that some small craters had appeared or disappeared, but in the 20th century it was determined that these claims were illusory, due to observing under different lighting conditions or due to the inadequacy of earlier drawings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moon (4573 words)

	Peter Lloyd's Lunar Pages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The craters Grimaldi and Riccioli were named after two 17th-century, Jesuit priests who were responsible for many of the names that we give to features on the Moon today, and for the scheme of this nomenclature.
		Riccioli is 150 Km in diameter and largely filled with debris coming from the formation of the Orientale basin, an event dated at 3,840 million years ago.
		Riccioli's lava has been dated by counting craters as 3,480 million years with the lava in Grimaldi a little younger at 2,500 to 3,250 million years.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /peter.lloyd3/Moon/Craters/Grimaldi050324.html (254 words)

	Galilaei (Lunar crater) - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The Galilaei crater is relatively undistinguished, with a sharp-edged rim that has a higher albedo than the surrounding maria.
		The crater was named by Giovanni Battista Riccioli, an Italian Jesuit who produced one of the first map of the moon in 1651.
		However Riccioli was an opponent of the Copernican system of a heliocentric solar system, a theory that Galileo advocated.
	www.iridis.com /Galilaei_crater_(Moon) (235 words)

	Moon
		The Moon is covered with tens of thousands of craters having a diameter of at least 1 kilometre.
		Although the pockets are thought to be small, the overall amount of water was suggested to be quite significant — 1 km³, or an amount the size of Lake Erie.
		By the medieval period, before the invention of the telescope, some believed that the Moon was a "perfectly smooth" sphere.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/moon (3333 words)

	Hitchhiker's Guide to Rukl Chart 39
		It is rumpled with wrinkle ridges, slightly cratered, softened by dust and time, with an impressive collection of straight rilles inside, most running rougly north/south.
		Riccioli is one of those wonderfully complex features that tends to get overlooked since it shows at its best near full...
		At first I thought it was the crater which Rukl marks "B" (Grimaldi B?), but later Bill O'Connell pointed out to me it was really Lohrmann, referencing his video capture of the area, so what I was seeing was in fact the "odd wall" David North mentioned.
	www.shallowsky.com /moon/rukl39.html (1005 words)

	Hartwig (Lunar crater)
		Hartwig is a lunar crater that is located near the western limb of the Moon.
		It is attached to the eastern rim of the prominent Schlüter crater, to the northeast of the Montes Cordillera mountain range that surrounds the Mare Orientale.
		Much of the eastern rim of the crater is overlaid by this ejecta, and only a portion of the western rim near Schluter crater remains well-formed.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hartwig_%28Lunar_crater%29 (186 words)

	Posidonius Lunar Ray
		There are smaller craters on the south, one of which Laméch declared to be subject to occasional obscuration in a manner similar to what Schröter found in connection with the great crater A. On the northern portion are numerous hills, craterlets and a low ring.
		He also found a crater to the north-east of A, and five shallow clefts from the western part of the inner ring toward the rough circle of hills west of A. There was also a short branch cleft to the great cleft on the northern part of the interior, and many mounds or landswells.
		Of the craters connected with Posidonius, Arthur found that J has a hill on the southwest part of its floor and a ridge on the inner north and east.
	www.lunar-occultations.com /rlo/rays/posidonius.htm (877 words)

	pajan99
		It is the Italian Jesuit astronomer Giovanni Riccioli, a contemporary of Hewelcke and van Langren, to whom we are indebted for a great deal of the lunar nomenclature in use today.
		Riccioli tended to name craters in the north after ancient scholars and classical philosophers, each surrounded by a clutch of that philosopher's pupils and advocates (Plato, Aristoteles).
		The crater's floor lies 3,760 metres beneath the crater's mountainous rim, and through a 150 mm reflector at high powers the floor's southern half can be seen to be hillier than the north.
	website.lineone.net /~petergrego/pajan99.htm (1664 words)

	Fourteen-Fifteen Day Moon
		Close to the limb, with its eastern edge tangent to the same ray, is the class 5 walled plain Bailly.
		This class 3 crater is named after Giovanni Riccioli, who in 1651 assigned the majority of the lunar feature names in current use.
		This is Giordano Bruno, an unassuming feature with the distinction of being possibly the youngest significant crater on the Moon, and perhaps the result of the only impact ever to have been witnessed.
	www.inconstantmoon.com /day_fm.htm (562 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		IAU spelling changes pre 1982 8 craters whose spelling was changed prior to AW82 by the IAU but for which the changes were rejected by AW82 on the grounds that the older versions were more familiar and established in the literature.
		Note that the crater Greaves appears in AW82 under its correct name and also under its old name of Lick D. For non-craters, I have adopted the traditional nomenclature of AW82 in which the "Mons" is omitted for mountains Pico, Piton, R:umker, Gruithuisen Gamma/Delta, Hadley Delta, rather than the IAU version with Mons added.
		For the farside craters, lettered and otherwise, someone needs to go through the early farside maps and catalogs and identify the current names with early designations to see when features were first identified.
	webgis.wr.usgs.gov /docs/lunarcraters_aw82_Notes.txt (963 words)

	[No title]
		Copernicus, the 58-mile (93-km) crater of the western plains, is one of the grandest features, with rays that splay out hundreds of miles in all directions.
		Riccioli's historical system was abandoned in the following centuries, but many of his conventions for naming craters continued.
		The crater named for Charles Darwin, the 19th-century English biologist and author of The Origin of Species, sits near the crater named after Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the French zoologist whose major accomplishment was the division of animal Life into the vertebrate and invertebrate categories.
	atropos.as.arizona.edu /aiz/teaching/a204/moon/Astron99.27.2.82.txt (1724 words)

	#12 - Lunar Imaging (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		For example, craters and mountains are best seen when they are near the terminator (the line separating the light and dark sides of the Moon), where they cast the largest shadows.
		Craters which come later are going to overlay craters, which were there originally.
		The diameter of a crater is about 10 to 50 times the diameter of the meteorite depending on the mass and velocity of the meteorite.
	astrowww.phys.uvic.ca /courses/a120/A120/lab12.html (2319 words)

	Observatorio ARVAL - Moon Map
		32- Vallis Schröteri (Schröter's Valley) [Northwest of Crater Aristarchus, 73, and North of Crater Herodotus]
		68- Crater Billy [Mons Hansteen is to the North of Crater Billy]
		79- Crater Harpalus [Crater Pythagoras is North of Crater Harpalus]
	www.oarval.org /MoonMapen.htm (449 words)

	Riccioli (crater) - Result for Riccioli (crater) - Meaning of Riccioli (crater) - Definition of Riccioli (crater) - ...
		eponym= Giovanni Battista Riccioli Giovanni B. Riccioli }} '''Riccioli''' is a large lunar impact crater located near the western limb of the Moon.
		To the southwest are the Hartwig (Lunar crater) Hartwig and Schlüter (crater) Schlüter craters that lie on the northeast edge of Montes Cordillera, the ring-shaped range that surrounds Mare Orientale.
		A system of rille s named the ''Rimae Riccioli'' lies across the interior, and is still visible despite the deposited ''ejecta''.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Riccioli_%28crater%29.html (287 words)

	Giovanni Battista Riccioli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Interestingly, despite his stated opposition to Copernicus's theory he named a very prominent crater ( Copernicus crater) after him, and other important craters were named after other proponents of the theory Kepler, Galileo and Lansbergius.
		Craters that he and Grimaldi named after themselves are in the same general vicinity, while some other Jesuit astronomers have craters named after them in a different part of the Moon, near Tycho crater.
		This is sometimes considered to be tacit sympathy for Copernican theory, which as a Jesuit he could not publically express.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/g/gi/giovanni_battista_riccioli.html (287 words)

	Olbers (crater) - Result for Olbers (crater) - Meaning of Olbers (crater) - Definition of Olbers (crater) - Dictionary ...
		eponym= Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers Heinrich W. Olbers }} '''Olbers''' is a lunar Impact crater crater that lies at the west edge of the Oceanus Procellarum, near the western limb of the Moon.
		It lies to the northwest of Hevelius (crater) Hevelius crater, and to the north of the indistinct Hedin (crater) Hedin crater formation.
		Further to the south is the Riccioli (crater) Riccioli crater.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Olbers_%28crater%29.html (318 words)

	Observing the Sky
		Juxtaposed to its north is crater Olbers (71 km), essentially an oval “inkwell,” but its high east rim catches sunlight yet.
		A crater is seen complete on the southern cusp, which I deduce to be Baade, as there is a dark small crater at its north side.
		Most of the floor of Baade is sunlit, but the crater is also much elliptical with a fl (shaded) west inside wall.
	www.observingthesky.org /index.php?m=20040814 (560 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Geography and the Church
		Similar work was done in 1702 by Father Thoma in China; in 1755, by Fathers Boscovich and Maire in the Papal States ; in 1762, by Father Liesganig in Austria, and in the same year by Father Christian Mayer, in the Palatinate, also by Fathers Beccaria and Canonica in northwestern Italy (1774).
		Such are the works of the Jesuit Riccioli (1598-1671), the "Almagestum Novum" and "Geographia et Hydrographia reformata" (1661).
		Riccioli was a worthy contemporary of the great Varenius, and was really entitled to rank as a reformer, especially in cartography.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06447a.htm (7651 words)

	The Moon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		The craters are round because at the enormous velocities with which meteorites arrive, the impact resembles a local explosion, and the signature of the impact is determined by the energy released rather than by the momentum transmitted.
		Those moons display " palimpsest" craters which are merely surface markings, because as time passed, the walls which originally existed sagged back onto the flat surface.
		The vast majority of craters probably date back to the early days of the solar system, because the lava of the maria has very few craters on it, suggesting it flooded and obliterated older ones.
	www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov /stargaze/Smoon2.htm (2108 words)

	Giovanni Battista Riccioli biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Giovanni Battista Riccioli ( April 17 1598 – June 25 1671) was an Italian astronomer.
		This is sometimes considered to be tacit sympathy for Copernican theory, which as a Jesuit he could not publicly express.
		Facts about Riccioli from Rice University 's Galileo Project.
	giovanni-riccioli.biography.ms (237 words)

	LPOD - 2004-10-10 - Lunar Photo of the Day
		To commemorate their hard work, Riccioli named a crater after each of them, and modestly gave the larger to his student.
		The crater Riccioli (diameter 145 km) is striated with ejecta from the formation of the Orientale impact basin to the southwest.
		Crater counts suggest that the Riccioli mare leak is about 3.48 b.y.
	www.lpod.org /LPOD-2004-10-10.htm (329 words)

	ñòðîíåò > LPOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		And that describes the triad of craters near the center of the Moon's face.
		I can't say much about the crater itself - its a 47 km wide crater with a completely mare-flooded interior.
		The north rim of the crater rises a kilometer above the mare surface, but most of the southern rim is gone.
	www.astronet.ru:8104 /db/lpod.html?page=34 (383 words)

	Linne Controversey
		Linne' was discovered by Riccioli during the seventeenth century; Lohrman, Madler, and Schmidt all observed it as a crater.
		In 1866, however, he made the spectacular announcement that the crater no longer remained and that only the bright mound was observable.
		If the crater disappeared as described, there was much more of such out- gassing for several months in 1866 than has occurred since.
	www.astrosurf.com /lunascan/Linncont.htm (833 words)

	Company Magazine -- News of Interest
		For centuries the basic map used for lunar nomenclatura was the one drawn in 1645 by Jesuit optician Francesco Grimaldi (1613-1663).
		Riccioli's assignment of some of the brightest craters to Copernicans--Kepler, Galileo, Lansberg, and Copernicus himself--has always been a bit of a puzzle, since as a Jesuit, Riccioli staunchly upheld the doctrine of a fixed and central earth.
		He claimed to have flung the heliocentrists into the Sea of Storms (Oceanus Procellarum), but some wonder if he did not reveal here a secret fondness for the Copernican doctrine, especially since he named two nearby craters Grimaldus and Ricciolus, while other Jesuit astronomers were assigned to craters in the south, surrounding Tycho.
	www.companysj.com /news.html (432 words)

	Lunar Drawings
		Although the seeing was bad the fact that the crater was on the terminator did help me out a bit.
		Rima Birt and its corresponding crater Birt E were seen.
		Rima Ariadaeus was at that moment close to the terminator and therefore the shadows are rather long.
	aberrator.astronomy.net /moon (279 words)

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