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Lunar 100

Il Lunar 100 è un elenco delle 100 formazioni più interessanti da osservare sulla Luna. L’elenco è stato descritto da Charles A. Wood nell’articolo The Lunar 100 nel numero di aprile 2004 della rivista Sky and Telescope.

No.	Feature Name	Significance
1	Moon	Large satellite
2	Earthshine	Twice reflected sunlight
3	Mare/highland dichotomy	Two materials with distinct compositions
4	Apennines	Imbrium basin rim
5	Copernicus	Archetypal large complex crater
6	Tycho	Large rayed crater with impact melts
7	Altai Scarp	Nectaris basin rim
8	Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina	Crater sequence illustrating stages of degradation
9	Clavius	Lacks basin features in spite of its size
10	Mare Crisium	Mare contained in large circular basin
11	Aristarchus	Very bright crater with dark bands on its walls
12	Proclus	Oblique-impact rays
13	Gassendi	Floor-fractured crater
14	Sinus Iridum	Very large crater with missing rim
15	Straight Wall	Best example of a lunar fault
16	Petavius	Crater with domed and fractured floor
17	Schroter’s Valley	Giant sinuous rille
18	Mare Serenitatis dark edges	Distinct mare areas with different compositions
19	Alpine Valley	Lunar graben
20	Posidonius	Floor-fractured crater
21	Fracastorius	Crater with subsided and fractured floor
22	Aristarchus Plateau	Mysterious uplifted region mantled with pyroclastics
23	Pico	Isolated Imbrium basin-ring fragment
24	Hyginus Rille	Rille containing rimless collapse pits
25	Messier and Messier A	Oblique ricochet-impact pair
26	Mare Frigoris	Arcuate mare of uncertain origin
27	Archimedes	Large crater lacking central peak
28	Hipparchus	Subject of first drawing of a single crater
29	Aridaeus Rille	Long, linear graben
30	Schiller	Possible oblique impact
31	Taruntius	Young floor-fractured crater
32	Arago Alpha and Beta	Volcanic domes
33	Serpentine Ridge	Basin inner-ring segment
34	Lacus Mortis Triesnecker Rilles	Strange crater with rille and ridge
35	Triesnecker Rilles	Rille family
36	Grimaldi basin	A small two-ring basin
37	Bailly	Barely discernible basin
38	Sabine and Ritter	Possible twin impacts
39	Schickard	Crater floor with Orientale basin ejecta stripe
40	Janssen Rille	Rare example of a highland rille
41	Bessel ray	Ray of uncertain origin near Bessel
42	Marius Hills	Complex of volcanic domes and hills
43	Wargentin	A crater filled to the rim with lava or ejecta
44	Mersenius	Domed floor cut by secondary craters
45	Maurolycus	Region of saturation cratering
46	Regiomontanus central peak	Possible volcanic peak
47	Alphonsus dark spots	Dark-halo eruptions on crater floor
48	Cauchy region	Fault, rilles and domes
49	Gruithuisen Delta and Gamma	Volcanic domes formed with viscous lavas
50	Cayley Plains	Light, smooth plains of uncertain origin

51	Davy crater chain	Result of comet-fragment impacts
52	Cruger	Possible volcanic caldera
53	Lamont	Possible buried basin
54	Hippalus Rilles	Rilles concentric to Humorum basin
55	Baco	Unusually smooth crater floor and surrounding plains
56	Mare Australe	A partially flooded ancient basin
57	Reiner Gamma	Conspicuous swirl and magnetic anomaly
58	Rheita Valley	Basin secondary-crater chain
59	Schiller-Zucchius basin	Badly degraded overlooked basin
60	Kies Pi	Volcanic dome
61	Mosting A	Simple crater close to centre of lunar near side
62	Rumker Hills	Large volcanic dome
63	Imbrium sculpture	Basin ejecta near and overlying Boscovich and Julius Caesar
64	Descartes	Apollo 16 landing site; putative region of highland volcanism
65	Hortensius domes	Dome field north of Hortensius
66	Hadley Rille	Lava channel near Apollo 15 landing site
67	Fra Mauro formation	Apollo 14 landing site on Imbrium ejecta
68	Flamsteed P	Proposed young volcanic crater; Surveyor 1 landing site
69	Copernicus secondary craters	Rays and craterlets near Pytheas
70	Humboldtianum basin	Multi-ring impact basin
71	Sulpicius Gallus dark mantle	Ash eruptions northwest of crater
72	Atlas dark-halo craters	Explosive pits on the floor of Atlas
73	Smythii basin	Difficult-to-observe basin scarp and mare
74	Copernicus H	Dark-halo impact crater
75	Ptolemaeus B	Saucerlike depression on the floor of Ptolemaeus
76	W. Bond	Large crater degraded by Imbrium ejecta
77	Sirsalis Rille	Procellarum basin radial rilles
78	Lambert R	A buried “ghost” crater
79	Sinus Aestuum	Eastern dark-mantle volcanic deposit
80	Orientale basin	Youngest large impact basin
81	Hesiodus A	Concentric crater
82	Linne	Small crater once thought to have disappeared
83	Plato craterlets	Crater pits at limits of detection
84	Pitatus	Crater with concentric rilles
85	Langrenus rays	Aged ray system
86	Prinz Rilles	Rille system near the Prinz
87	Humboldt	Crater with central peaks and dark spots
88	Peary	Difficult-to-observe polar crater
89	Valentine Dome	Volcanic dome
90	Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins	Small craters near the Apollo 11 landing site
91	De Gasparis Rilles	Area with many rilles
92	Gylden Valley	Part of Imbrium radial sculpture
93	Dionysius rays	Unusual and rare dark rays
94	Drygalski	Large south-pole region crater
95	Procellarum basin	The Moon’s biggest basin?
96	Leibnitz Mountains	Rim of South Pole-Aitken basin
97	Inghirami Valley	Orientale basin ejecta
98	Imbrium lava flows	Mare lave-flow boundaries
99	Ina caldera	D-shaped young volcanic caldera
100	Mare Marginis swirls	Possible magnetic-field deposits

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