Alphonsus is an ancient impact crater on the Moon that dates from the pre-Nectarian era. (Older sources state that it is Nectarian in age. ) It is located...

Jewish writer other: Alphonsus (crater) lunar crater This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Alphonsus. If an internal link...

related to Davy (crater). Topophotomap 77D1S1(10) showing location of minor named features. Lunar Orbiter map and photo of Alphonsus, shows relationship...

impact crater located on the eastern edge of Mare Nubium, to the southwest of the much larger crater Alphonsus. In the southeast is the prominent crater Arzachel...

Astrólogo)—led him to sponsor the creation of the Alfonsine tables, and the Alphonsus crater on the Moon is named after him. He also sponsored the work of historians...

lies to the south of the crater Alphonsus, and together with Ptolemaeus further north the three form a prominent line of craters to the east of Mare Nubium...

UT 12°50′S 2°22′W / 12.83°S 2.37°W / -12.83; -2.37 (Ranger 9) - Alphonsus crater Ranger's Block 3 embodied four launches in 1964-65. These spacecraft...

diameter. To the south-southwest, Ptolemaeus is joined to the rim of the crater Alphonsus by a section of rugged, irregular terrain, and these form a prominent...

994 UTC at approximately 12.83 S latitude, 357.63 E longitude in the Alphonsus crater. Impact velocity was 2,670 metres per second (8,800 ft/s). The spacecraft...

southwestern part of Fracastorius (crater), and a section of the western wall of Plato (crater). A special filter wheel called a "crater extinction device" is capable...

apparent half-hour "eruption" that took place on the central peak of Alphonsus crater using a 48-inch (122-cm) reflector telescope equipped with a spectrometer...

landings. The Apollo Site Selection Board considered landing sites at Alphonsus crater and the Descartes Highlands, and it chose the Descartes Highlands as...

astronomer William Lassell. It lies to the west of the crater Alpetragius and southwest of Alphonsus. The interior of Lassell has been flooded and resurfaced...

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...

sites that made the final consideration for Apollo 17 were Alphonsus crater, Gassendi crater, and the Taurus–Littrow valley. In making the final landing...

09:57:37, returned 7,137 images 24 March Ranger 9 Lunar impact Impacted Alphonsus Crater at 14:08:20, returned 5,814 images 12 May Luna 5 Lunar impact Failed...

crater is at the top.[citation needed] Albategnius is located to the south of the crater Hipparchus and to the east of both Ptolemaeus and Alphonsus....

transient lunar phenomenon in the crater Alphonsus on the Moon. In 1958 he observed a patch of white within the crater, and a spectrum of the area appeared...

Observatory to observe a peculiar obscuration on part of the floor of Alphonsus crater, which brought him worldwide notice. (This is a class of events now...

Schrödinger is a large lunar impact crater of the form traditionally called a walled plain and is named after Erwin Schrödinger. It is located near the...

people in the film and television industry. Ranger 9 impacted into the Alphonsus crater on the Moon at 9:08 a.m. Eastern Time, after taking 6,150 high resolution...

north-northwest lies the large Fra Mauro crater, along with the co-joined craters Parry and Bonpland. To the east are the craters Kundt and Davy. The surviving rim...

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...

published between 1898 and 1900 in Cairo Soraya, a small lunar crater within Alphonsus Sooraya Qadir (Dust), a Marvel comic book character from the X-Men...

Astronomers also reported flashes of light and red clouds over the Alphonsus and Aristarchus craters. Evidence collected during the Apollo program (1961–1972)...

given consideration to achieve this goal: the Descartes site and the crater Alphonsus. The Descartes Highlands was selected for the Apollo 16 mission in...

were the Descartes Highlands region west of Mare Nectaris and the crater Alphonsus. The considerable distance between the Descartes site and previous...

normal but steep-walled crater about five miles in diameter. In 1866 Schmidt, a famed astronomer, reported that Linne was not a crater at all but looked more...

impact. Features: The large crater at center right is Alphonsus. Altitude: 830 miles (1,340 km). Features: Image of Guericke crater, taken 8.5 minutes before...

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...