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Old December 4th 06, 03:50 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
canopus56[_1_]
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Default Website Ann: Table of 2,373 near crater depths from the Apollo era

http://members.csolutions.net/fisher...ApolloEra.html

This is to announce a website regarding lunar crater depths for approx
2,300 smaller nearside craters made during the Apollo era.

Approximately 1,896 higher-precision nearside crater depths from the
Apollo era by Pike (1976) and Arthur (1974) and 477 low-precision
crater depths by Cherrington (1969) were digitized and are presented
here for amateur lunar enthusiasts' use. Pike (1976) and Arthur (1974)
report a kilometer precision to two significant digits for crater
diameters and crater depths. The standard source of the USGS Gazetteer
of Planetary Nomenclature reports only crater diameters in whole
kilometers. The Gazetteer does not report crater depths. Another
standard reference source for crater depths and diameters is the
Appendix in Westfall's Atlas of the Lunar Terminator (2000). Westfall's
Appendix table concerns about 830 named-craters but reports no depths
or diameters for smaller satellite feature craters. In the table
presented here, 1,637 (69%) smaller satellite depths and diameters are
digitized; 684 (29%) larger named-crater and other feature measurements
from Cherrington (1969), Arthur and Pike are digitized.

Appendix in Westfall (2000) remains the best source for named crater
depths. The Cherrington chart take-offs from the 1960s have a very low
accuracy. This digitized table provides higher-precision supplemental
measurements for smaller satellite craters measured during the Apollo
era.

The table, by feature name, can be directly linked from:
http://members.csolutions.net/fisher...atureName.html


Arthur (1974) is a portion (N=1,900) of the 7,000 plus nearside crater
catalogue
prepared by Chuck Wood in the 1970s, discussed in this LPOD:

Wood, C.A. May 13, 2004. A New/Old Catalog of Lunar Craters. Lunar
Picture of the Day (LPOD)
http://www.lpod.org/archive/archive/...2004-05-13.htm

Enjoy - Canopus56