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    Struve is the lava-flooded remains of a lunar impact crater. It is located near the western extreme of the Oceanus Procellarum, close to the western lunar...
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    as Otto Struve A, or just assumed to be part of the larger Struve. The crater Eddington to the southeast has also been designated as Otto Struve A on old...
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  • Otto Struve A may refer to: Russell (lunar crater) Eddington (crater), on older maps This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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  • Struve Struve (crater), a crater on the Moon Struve functions, named after Karl Hermann Struve Struve Geodetic Arc, a World Heritage Site Otto Struve...
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    Hermann Struve and a lunar crater was named for another 3 astronomers of the Struve family: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm, Otto Wilhelm and Otto. Struve's name...
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    lunar impact crater, located on the western part of Oceanus Procellarum. The western rim is attached to the wall of the walled plain Struve. To the east-southeast...
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    Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 (Julian calendar: April 25) – April 14, 1905) was a Russian astronomer of Baltic German origins. In Russian, his name...
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    the Struve family; he was the son of Ludwig Struve, grandson of Otto Wilhelm von Struve and great-grandson of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve. He was...
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    is a lunar impact crater that is located in the western part of the Oceanus Procellarum, to the east of the large walled plain Struve. It lies to the northeast...
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  • List of lunar features (category Impact craters on the Moon)
    ("Unknown Sea") Mare Novum ("New Sea"), northeast of Plutarch Mare Struve ("Struve's Sea"), near Messala A related set of features are the Lunar lacus...
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    ("Unknown Sea"); Mare Novum ("New Sea"), northeast of Plutarch; and Mare Struve ("Struve's Sea"), near Messala. Some sources also list a Palus Nebularum (Latin...
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    surface. Covered by numerous impact craters reaching 210 km (130 mi) in diameter, Umbriel is the second-most heavily cratered satellite of Uranus after Oberon...
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    Gerard Kuiper using the McDonald Observatory's 82-inch (2,080 mm) Otto Struve Telescope. Its motion around Uranus was confirmed on 1 March 1948. It was...
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    stellar spectroscopy and the physics of gaseous nebulas. Together with Otto Struve, he studied the rapid rotation of stars of young spectral types and measured...
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    shaped by asteroid and comet impacts. It is covered by numerous impact craters reaching 210 km in diameter. Oberon possesses a system of chasmata (graben...
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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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    construction of 2,820 km long Struve Geodetic Arc, progenitor of the Struve family of astronomers Otto Lyudvigovich Struve, astronomer and astrophysicist...
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  • Astronomical Society in 1944, and the Bruce Medal in 1948. The lunar crater Struve was also named in his honor. The official naming citation was published...
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    of Struve as his successor as director of Yerkes Observatory.[citation needed] Asteroid 854 Frostia is named in his honor, as is the lunar crater Frost...
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    instruments then available had been found. Friedrich Struve (catalog abbr. Σ) and his son Otto Struve (catalog abbr. σ) had catalogued a good number of binary...
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    measurements. In particular, he remeasured many double stars from Friedrich Struve's Dorpat Catalogue, noting how some of them had changed position over the...
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  • Martynov (crater) Moroz crater Okhotsk crater Olenek crater Olom crater Ostrov crater Palana crater Reutov crater Revda crater Ruza crater Rynok crater Sabo...
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    448–476 (specifically p. 461). Bibcode:1894AstAp..13..448C. Swings, P.; Struve, O. (1940). "HD 167362, an object similar to Campbell's hydrogen envelope...
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    is covered with numerous impact craters reaching up to 326 kilometres (203 mi) in diameter, but is less heavily cratered than Oberon, outermost of the five...
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    Wilhelm Struve who had moved to Pulkovo Observatory. He carried out meteorological as well as astronomical observations. He continued Struve's observations...
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  • after people. While topological features on Solar System bodies — such as craters, mountains, and valleys — are often named after famous or historical individuals...
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    relative movement was produced. A short time later Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve and Thomas Henderson reported the parallaxes of Vega and Alpha Centauri...
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    London. 88: 47–79. Bibcode:1798RSPT...88...47H. doi:10.1098/rstl.1798.0005. Struve, O. (1848). "Note on the Satellites of Uranus". Monthly Notices of the Royal...
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    rings of Saturn, the other two astronomers being William Wray and Otto Struve. In 1871, the engineer James Nasmyth partnered with James Carpenter to produce...
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    marking the right wing. Located 4.5 degrees northeast of Delta Corvi is Struve 1669, a binary star that is divisible into two stars 5.4" apart by small...
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