Central Pk Heights

How High are Central Peaks in Lunar Craters?

I determined these peak heights from shadow length measures on Lunar Orbiter IV photographs in 1972. These peak heights were used in my paper, Moon: Central Peak Heights and Crater Origins, Icarus 20, pp 503-506 (1973). The computer printout pages that contained these data were salvaged from my flooded basement following the Great Flood of the Red River in 1997. I dried out the old faded computer printouts and transcribed them, not thinking that 7 years later I would post them on a web page! The + on Bessel A means that the shadow did not fall on the floor, thus this is a minimum estimate for the peak height.

Crater Peak Heights (km)

Adams 0.12

Alphonsus 2.04

Anaxagoras 1

Archytas 0.68

Arzachel 2.01

Bessel A 0.034+

Biela 1.09

Briggs B 0.42

Bullialdus 1.11

Cardanus 0.76

Carpenter 0.98

Cavalerius 1.1

Copernicus 1.06

Dawes 0.41

Demonax 0.87

Euler 0.59

Eratosthenes 1.11

Fontenelle 0.5

Hase B 0.69

Helmholtz D 1.2

Hermann 0.18

Kapteyn 0.87

Langrenus A 0.9

La Perouse 1.17

Legendre 0.39

Lexell A 0.58

Lilius C 0.44

Madler 0.6+

Manilius 0.87

Manilius A 0.65+

Menelaus A 0.02

Moretus 2.66

Olbers A 0.56

Palitzsch B 0.71

Peirescius 0.67

Philolaus 1.09

Piazzi C 0.34

Rutherford 1.38

Sirsalis 1.08

Tycho 2.26 1

Zucchius 0.74