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    Pontécoulant is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located in the southeastern part of the Moon. Due to its position, the crater appears foreshortened...
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    crater diameter to the southwest is the prominent crater Pontécoulant. Hanno is a heavily worn crater formation with an outer rim that has been battered...
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    Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant (1795–1874) was a French astronomer. He was the younger son of Louis Gustave le Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant and was the brother...
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    regularization methods in mechanics in 1912. Sundman was awarded the Pontécoulant prize by the French Academy of Science in 1913 for this work. In 1908...
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    to libration. The crater lies to the southwest of the irregular Mare Australe, and southeast of the prominent crater Pontécoulant. To the southwest of...
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    impact crater, after an estimate was published by Russian researchers. The crash site is situated on the steep inner rim of the Pontécoulant G crater, which...
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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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    gravitational effects. Later that year, Philippe Gustave Doulcet, Comte de Pontécoulant published a claim that the tangential force could have no effect though...
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    Lagrange, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Siméon Denis Poisson, and Gustave de Pontécoulant. Hill graduated from Rutgers College in 1859, with a Bachelor of Arts...
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  • thorough review of the work of earlier researchers, such as Hill, de Pontécoulant, Delaunay and Hansen. His mastery of the field was shown by the publication...
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