Gabriel Delmotte
Gabriel Delmotte (5 February 1876 – 10 March 1950) was a French astronomer, deputy and Mayor of Masnières in the Nord department in northern France.
He was the author of Recherches sélénographiques et nouvelle théorie des cirques lunaires, which was published in 1923 in Paris. He and Maurice Darney independently discovered the network of linear troughs radial to the Imbrium basin,[1] a phenomenon later known as the "Imbrium sculpture", though their finding went largely unnoticed at the time.[2][3]
The crater Delmotte on the Moon is named after him.
Sources
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Cummings, Warren D. (25 September 2019). Evolving Theories on the Origin of the Moon. Springer Nature. p. 38. ISBN 978-3-030-29119-8. Retrieved 24 April 2026.
- ^ Wood, Charles E. "Imbrium Lineaments and Davy's Weird Chain. - Free Online Library". www.thefreelibrary.com. Retrieved 24 April 2026.
- ^ France, Société astronomique de (1925). Bulletin de la Société astronomique de France (in French). Société astronomique de France. pp. 17, 111, 616. Retrieved 24 April 2026.
| International | |
|---|---|
| People | |
   | This article about a French astronomer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |