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    Byrd is an irregular lunar impact crater that is located near the north pole of the Moon. The north rim of Byrd is nearly connected to the crater Peary...
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  • official Byrd, Alabama, United States Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica Mount Byrd Byrd Station, a former U.S. research station Byrd (lunar crater), on the...
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    Moon (redirect from Lunar mass)
    hypothesized Mars-sized body called Theia. The lunar surface is covered in lunar dust and marked by mountains, impact craters, their ejecta, ray-like streaks, rilles...
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    Gioia is a lunar impact crater that is located in the vicinity of the north pole of the Moon. It is named after the alleged Italian inventor of compass...
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    Florey is a lunar impact crater on the lunar near side near the northern pole. Florey is directly adjacent to Byrd crater (diameter of 94 km) to the Southeast...
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    Smithsonian Institution. Lunar crater Byrd is named after him, as was the United States Navy dry cargo ship USNS Richard E. Byrd (T-AKE-4) and the now decommissioned...
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    Gore is a lunar impact crater located on the lunar near side near the northern pole. Major nearby features include Florey crater (diameter of 54.7 km)...
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  • Guest (redirect from Guest (crater))
    Mubarak 4325 Guest, main-belt asteroid Guest (lunar crater), lunar impact crater Guest (Plutonian crater) Guest star (astronomy), ancient Chinese astronomical...
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  • Fibiger is a lunar impact crater located on the lunar near side near the northern pole. The nearest major feature is the Byrd crater. The crater was adopted...
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    Whipple is a lunar impact crater located on the lunar far side near the northern pole. The crater is located East of the prominent craters Byrd and Peary;...
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  • Smith (redirect from Smith (crater))
    Smith, north of Mawson Glacier, Scott Coast Smith (lunar crater), on the Moon Smith (Martian crater), on Mars Smith, Buenos Aires, Carlos Casares Partido...
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    for the lunar laser ranging experiment. Then Armstrong walked 196 feet (60 m) from the LM to take photographs at the rim of Little West Crater while Aldrin...
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  • locale was moved from the Mare Crisium to the most spectacular of all lunar craters, Tycho—easily visible to the naked eye from Earth at Full Moon. "Encounter...
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  • a rhythm and blues band from Christchurch, New Zealand Chant (crater), a lunar crater Chant (horse) (born 1891), American Thoroughbred racehorse that...
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  • was Lloyd V. Berkner Hall at the University of Texas at Dallas. The lunar crater Berkner was named in his honor. Berkner Island in Antarctica was also...
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  • (New Zealand), a small volcano off the coast of Auckland Brown (crater), a lunar crater Brown (surname), a common surname List of people with surname Brown...
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    org. IAU General Assembly 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018. Brown, Andrew R.; Byrd, Deborah (August 2015). "First maps of Charon and Pluto". earthsky.org. EarthSky...
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    for craters and agricultural festivals for everything else. As of 2020, the IAU has approved names for 151 geological features on Ceres: craters, montes...
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  • Friedrich Zöllner Lunar craters named for space explorers Stars named after people List of minor planets named after people List of craters on Mars named...
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    list of fictional astronauts on moonbases and performing other feats of lunar exploration not yet achieved. Moon landings in fiction Moon in science fiction...
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    Bibcode:2011arXiv1106.3141F. doi:10.1511/2011.91.312. S2CID 118403321. McClure, Bruce; Byrd, Deborah (22 September 2021). "Gamma Cephei, aka Errai, a future North Star"...
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    Island in the Kennedy Channel, between Greenland and Ellesmere Island The lunar crater Crozier, located at 13.5° S, 50.8° E on the Moon's near side Crozier...
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    Apollo 15 The thin lunar atmosphere is visible on the Moon's surface at sunrise and sunset with the lunar horizon glow and lunar twilight rays, like...
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    crater on the Moon was named after him; the rim of the crater is being considered by NASA as a potential landing location for their Artemis III lunar...
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    Society. In September 2021, the International Astronomical Union named a lunar crater after him. Henson was born on August 8, 1866, on his parents' farm east...
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    Gale crater, Mars". Science. 356 (6341): eaah6849. Bibcode:2017Sci...356.6849H. doi:10.1126/science.aah6849. hdl:10044/1/53715. PMID 28572336. Byrd, Deborah...
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    in Deo.' McClure Strait was later named after him, as well as the lunar McClure crater in the Mare Fecunditatis, the Sea of Fertility. Lee, Sidney, ed....
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    the November 1956 lunar eclipse while still residing at the Observatory House. Asteroid 3315 Chant is named after him. The crater Chant on the Moon is...
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    training missions with astronauts to simulate the lunar landing sites. Boudette travelled to impact craters on the Canadian Shield and volcanic centers in...
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  • Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. Includes a scene at a lunar administrative base in the Clavius crater. Planet of the Apes (1968) by Franklin J. Schaffner...
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