Humboldt is a large lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon. Due to foreshortening this formation has an extremely oblong...
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Illinois Humboldt, Iowa Humboldt, Kansas Humboldt, Minnesota Humboldt, Nebraska Humboldt, Ohio Humboldt, Portland, Oregon Humboldt, Pennsylvania Humboldt, South...
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large lunar impact crater that lies near the eastern limb of the Moon. It is attached to the northern rim of the walled plain Humboldt. To the northeast...
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This is a list of named lunar craters. The large majority of these features are impact craters. The crater nomenclature is governed by the International...
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Phillips is a lunar impact crater that is located in the vicinity of the Moon's east-southeastern limb, named after British geologist John Phillips. The...
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Lunar craters are impact craters on Earth's Moon. The Moon's surface has many craters, all of which were formed by impacts. The International Astronomical...
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German scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. It began as a lecture series delivered by Humboldt at the University of Berlin, and was published...
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impact crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the near side of the Moon, east of the large crater Humboldt and west of Curie. The crater's name...
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objects, but of a more familiar object, the Moon. The objects listed include craters, seas, mountains and other features, and are arranged in ascending order...
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The crater chain Catena Humboldt passes to the south of Gibbs, following a line to the northeast. Due to its proximity to the limb, this crater appears...
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lunar impact crater that is located near the eastern limb of the Moon. It is attached to the southeast rim of the large crater Humboldt, and Abel lies...
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Mare Humboldtianum (redirect from Sea of Alexander von Humboldt)
Humboldtianum /hʌmboʊltiˈeɪnəm/ (Latin humboldtiānum, the "Sea of Alexander von Humboldt") is a lunar mare located just to the east of Mare Frigoris, in the center...
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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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Mount Erebus (redirect from Side Crater)
around 1.3 million years and has a long-lived lava lake in its inner summit crater that has been present since at least the early 1970s. On 28 November, 1979...
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Peak, the highest peak in Arizona at 12,633 feet. Barringer Crater (a.k.a. Meteor Crater) Mormon Lake Oak Creek Canyon Verde Valley Mingus Mountain, (Black...
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observed within the basin include wrinkle ridges, submerged "ghost" craters, domes, crater chains, and rilles. The overall shape of the mare is circular, likely...
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worked in Heidelberg, getting his PhD there in 1906 and he then joined the Humboldt University of Berlin where he became the Director of the Institute for...
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however, this would be one of the largest visible craters, with a dimension roughly equal to the crater Humboldt, lying several hundred kilometers to the west-southwest...
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List of lunar features (category Impact craters on the Moon)
surface of the Moon has many features, including mountains and valleys, craters, and maria—wide flat areas that look like seas from a distance but are...
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given by Alexander von Humboldt in his book Kosmos. Humbold and Buch considered basaltic volcanism to be linked to elevation craters and trachyte to be the...
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Yellowstone hotspot (redirect from Owyhee-Humboldt volcanic field)
volcanic field, Owyhee-Humboldt volcanic field, Lake Owyhee volcanic field (or Jordan Valley volcanic field, Lake Owyhee), Jordan Craters, Santa Rosa – Calico...
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in a 13 km wide impact crater. The age of the crater is estimated to be 99 ± 4 million years (Cretaceous). The smaller Gow crater, of Triassic age, is approximately...
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(Egypt) Lake Chad Basin (Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria) Western Equatorial Crater Lakes (Cameroon) Lake Barombi Koto Lake Barombi Mbo Lake Bermin Lake Benakouma...
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Aimé Bonpland (category Alexander von Humboldt)
1858) was a French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804. He co-authored volumes of the scientific...
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Hut Point Peninsula (redirect from Sheppard Crater)
relation to First Crater and Crater Hill, but the name has fallen into disuse. Twin Crater, alluding to the nested cones in the crater, was applied as early...
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10097 Humbroncos 1991 RV16 In memory of the sixteen people killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash near Armley, Saskatchewan, Canada, in 2018. IAU · 10097...
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F, 4th Infantry, at the newly constructed Fort Humboldt in California. Grant arrived at Fort Humboldt on January 5, 1854, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel...
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Fire". According to another theory it is based on the Quichua uraua for crater. Tungurahua is also known as "The Black Giant" (Gigante Negro in spanish)...
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× 550 m (2,620 ft × 1,800 ft) wide crater which is 250 m (820 ft) deep. The crater consists of two concentric crater rims, the outer one being partly free...
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Nigerian politician Böde, village in Zala County, Hungary Bode, Iowa, city in Humboldt County, Iowa, United States Bode, Nepal, city in Bhaktapur District, Nepal...
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