The Bond-Lassell ridge [1] ( English Bond-Lassell Dorsum ) is a linearly elongated hill characterized by relatively soft outlines of peaks and slopes. It is located on the moon of Saturn - Hyperion .
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Geography and geology
This ridge is the northern rim (wall) of a large nameless impact crater , whose diameter is 122 km (despite the fact that the average size of Hyperion itself is 288 km ) and a depth of about 10 km . The approximate ridge coordinates are [2] . It was discovered on the images of the Voyager-1 (1980) spacecraft Voyager-2 (1981), and subsequently it was removed in higher resolution by the Cassini spacecraft.
Eponym
The Bond — Lassell Ridge is named after the astronomers who once discovered this moon of Saturn , Hyperion — George Phillips Bond , William Crunch Bond, and William Lassell [3] [2] . This name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1982 [2] .
See also
- List of relief details of Hyperion
Notes
- ↑ Nomenclature of relief details for Saturn’s satellites, 1986 , p. 68.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Bond-Lassell Dorsum . Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature . International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) (October 1, 2006). Date of treatment March 31, 2015. Archived March 31, 2015.
- ↑ Nomenclature of relief details for Saturn’s satellites, 1986 , p. 67.
Literature
- Burba G. A. Nomenclature of the relief details of Saturn's satellites / Otv. ed. K.P. Florensky and Yu. I. Efremov. - Moscow: Nauka, 1986 .-- 80 p.