Crater Baltimore
From BaltoCo
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Peter Walsh writes:
.... approximately 76 degrees 40 minutes West by 39 degrees 20 minutes North, lay a tiny crater in the periphery of the Lavoisier system, a system of craters that borders on the western edge of Oceanus Procellarum ...
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In 1981, Richard Tryzno Ellsberry and the Crater Baltimore Committee proposed naming a crater on the Moon Crater Baltimore, being located at the same longitude and latitude as the city of Baltimore (Maryland US) on Earth. The crater exists in the Lavoisier crater group (Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 1743-1794). The idea was for Crater Baltimore to remain a natural park, in perpetuity, and off-limits to commercial development. On March 11, 1982, reporter Benjamin Franklin described the project alongside a NASA lunar photo of the Lavoisier site in the New York Times.
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- Image at right points to the Lavoisier Crater from Google Moon — 38.2N, -81.2 (W)
A NASA photo similar to this one ran in the NY Times in March of 1982. Crater Baltimore is in the picture. - Google Moon image below shows the Lavoisier crater group, west of NASA regional grids Rümker & Seleucus. Again, Crater Baltimore is in the photograph.
See article "THE NIGHT THE PLANETS WERE ALIGNED..." by BEN A. FRANKLIN in the NEW YORK TIMES, March 11, 1982, Section A, Page 20.
