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Revision as of 14:49, 8 February 2015

Single Crater Septum

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left: image from LRO WAC mosaic, and right: close-up of Kies A from LRO WAC Act-REACT Quick Map

While looking at the wonderful nomenclature map Maurice Collins constructed with the LRO WAC mosaic I noticed a strange curved ridge
tangent to Kies A. It immediately reminded me of a similar curved ridge or septum between Plato K and KA. This latter case is explained
as being created by converging ejecta from two simultaneously formed craters, but Kies A is just a single crater, although its shape is non-
round. So I found a higher Sun LROC WAC view from the Quick Map - thanks ASU/NASA for two different mosaics! - that doesn't suggest
two almost completely overlapping simulataneous craters. There is a small scallop on the northeast side where a collapse removed a small
bite from the rim. Then I remembered a second case of a similar single crater arc at Cauchy. Cauchy is a perfectly normal circular crater so
the curved ridge does not require an unusual crater to form. I wonder if an oblique impact could produce such a curved septum? Neither
Cauchy nor Kies A is young enough to preserve rays to provide evidence for non-vertical impacts. Danny Caes had actually mentioned both
Kies A and Cauchy in an LPOD comment in 2009 and he wondered if there were more of them, which is still a good question. Finding more
examples might lead to clues as to their origin.

Chuck Wood

Related Links
Rükl plate 53

Yesterday's LPOD: Continuing Discovery

Tomorrow's LPOD: The Pacific View



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