> Many years ago, my wife "purchased" a crater on the moon for me and named > it, of course "W a l t e r." It was actually a donation to a science museum and > I got a neat moon map. Ironically, upon examining the map, there really is > a crater named W a l t e r !
.. and a sizeable one at that! It is a walled plain (diameter 132 by 140 km) and the walls rise up to about 4100 meters. It was named after the German astronomer Bernhard W a l t e r (1430-1504). We had a first-quarter Moon yesterday, so W a l t e r should still be close to the terminator area. Bernd To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
