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The Lunar 100
by Charles A. Wood

The Lunar 100 (continued)
L Feature Name Significance Lat. (°) Long. (°) Diam. (km) Rükl Chart
81Hesiodus AConcentric crater30.1S17.0W1554
82LinnéSmall crater once thought to have disappeared27.7N11.8E2.423
83Plato craterletsCrater pits at limits of detection51.6N9.4W1013, 4
84PitatusCrater with concentric rilles29.8S13.5W9754
85Langrenus raysAged ray system8.9S60.9E13249
86Prinz RillesRille system near the crater Prinz27.0N43.0W4619
87HumboldtCrater with central peaks & dark spots27.0S80.9E20760
88PearyDifficult-to-observe polar crater88.6N33.0E744, II
89Valentine DomeVolcanic dome30.5N10.1E3013
90Armstrong, Aldrin & CollinsSmall craters near the Apollo 11 landing site1.3N23.7E335
91De Gasparis RillesArea with many rilles25.9S50.7W3051
92Gylden ValleyPart of the Imbrium radial sculpture5.1S0.7E4744
93Dionysius raysUnusual & rare dark rays2.8N17.3E1835
94DrygalskiLarge south-pole region crater79.3S84.9W16272, VI
95Procellarum basinThe Moon's biggest basin?23.0N15.0W3200
96Leibnitz MountainsRim of South Pole-Aitken basin85.0S30.0E73, V
97Inghirami ValleyOrientale basin ejecta44.0S73.0W14061
98Imbrium lava flowsMare lava-flow boundaries32.8N22.0W10
99InaD-shaped young volcanic caldera18.6N5.3E322
100Mare Marginis swirlsPossible magnetic field deposits18.5N88.0E27, III
Chart numbers refer to Antonín Rükl's Atlas of the Moon.

For additional details, see my article "Introducing the Lunar 100" in the April 2004 Sky & Telescope. If you don't have that issue handy, the article is also available in the S&T Magazine Archive on ProQuest as a half-megabyte PDF. The PDF can be downloaded for free by archive subscribers and for a nominal fee otherwise. To read the PDF, you'll need Adobe Reader, which is available at no cost for most computers.

For the convenience of observers, the Lunar 100 is also available on Sky & Telescope's 9-by-12-inch Lunar 100 Card, which has a map on one side and a table on the other. It comes in two versions: unlaminated ($3.95) and laminated ($4.95).



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