Gassendi is a large lunar impact crater feature located at the northern edge of Mare Humorum. It was named after French astronomer Pierre Gassendi. The...

Gassend [fr] or Gassendi (1749–1806), French priest and politician Gassendi (crater), a large crater on the Moon named after Pierre Gassendi This disambiguation...

one of the three final possible sites for Apollo 17, together with Gassendi crater and the Taurus-Littrow valley, but it was considered possibly "contaminated"...

publishing the first data on the transit of Mercury in 1631. The lunar crater Gassendi is named after him. He wrote numerous philosophical works, and some...

Tycho (/ˈtaɪkoʊ/) is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601)...

in Copernicus crater in December 1972. Other proposed landing sites and schedules for the last three missions included Gassendi crater (Apollo 18, July...

lunar impact crater located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum. It was named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It typifies craters that formed during...

small lunar impact crater that is located in the southern part of the Oceanus Procellarum, to the northeast of the crater Gassendi. It was named after...

around Copernicus Mare Nectaris Mare Humorum Bright region around Kepler Gassendi region Plinius region Mare Vaporum Lubiniesky region Sinus Medii Faintly...

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

formation is located to the northwest of the large crater Gassendi.To the west-southwest is the flooded crater Billy, and north-northwest lies the smaller Flamsteed...

floor-fractured crater, meaning it was flooded from the interior by magma intrusion through cracks and openings. (See also Gassendi and Posidonius for...

Retrieved December 7, 2016. Ballard, J. G. (February 1970). "Journey Across a Crater". New Worlds. No. 198. pp. 2–5. Retrieved April 6, 2020. Serling, Rod (1971)...

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...

peaks of the crater Copernicus consist of three isolated mountainous rises climbing as high as 1200 m above the crater floor crater Gassendi with central...

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...

drafted into the project, he learns that an American expedition to Gassendi crater has made a discovery which US authorities are keeping secret — machinery...

crater Gassendi, which was considered as a possible landing site for Apollo 17.[citation needed] To the south are the floor-fractured Vitello crater,...

Mercury is heavily cratered, as a result of countless impact events that have accumulated over billions of years. Its largest crater, Caloris Planitia...

The following is a list of people whose names were given to craters of the Moon. The list of approved names in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...

it the Mare Astronomicum ("Sea of Astronomy") in his 1645 map. Pierre Gassendi called it the Boreum Mare ('Northern Sea'). This area of the Moon featured...

Gassendi had included it as part of the 'Homuncio' ('little man'), referring to a small humanoid figure that he could see among the maria; Gassendi also...

nuée ardente (pyroclastic cloud), subsidence of lava-covered basin and crater floors, and tectonic extension. On-site examination would be necessary to...

Wilhelm Beer and Johann Heinrich Mädler. Dr. Petersen showed him the craters Gassendi and Bullialdus. Rümker taught him the fundamentals of astronomical...

the name 'Caspian Sea', being labelled as such by Thomas Harriot, Pierre Gassendi and Michael van Langren. Ewen A. Whitaker speculates that it received this...

the eastern part of crater Gassendi's floor. In 1967, T.J.C.A.Moseley of the Armagh Observatory recorded a flash in the area of crater Parrot. In 1968, J...

considerably better than the previous value of 478 m/s obtained by Pierre Gassendi. The currently accepted value is 331.29 m/s at 0 °C or 340.29 m/s at sea...

Parisiensis in the French capital, until 1649. There he met "Messieurs Gassendi, Descartes, Hobbes, Roberval, and the two Pascals, father and son". He...

accurate computations of the positions of the then-known planets. Pierre Gassendi used them to predict a transit of Mercury in 1631, and Jeremiah Horrocks...

Danzig, Ismaël Boulliau, Pierre Desnoyers, Albrecht Portner, and Pierre Gassendi, who served as secretary to the Queen of Poland. However, the past limitations...