Petavius

American  

[pi-tah-vee-uhs] / pɪˈtɑ vi əs /

noun

1. a walled plain in the fourth quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter from crest to crest.

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Example Sentences

The central mountains of Petavius, rising at one peak to a height of nearly 6000 feet above the floor, form a noble group, exceeding in height those in Gassendi by more than 2000 feet.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn

Petavius is remarkable not only for its great size, but also for the rare feature of having a double rampart.

From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir

SNELLIUS.—A very fine ring-plain, 50 miles in diameter, S.E. of Petavius, with terraced walls, considerably broken on the S.E. by craters, &c.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn

WROTTESLEY.—A formation, about 25 miles in diameter, closely associated with the E. wall of Petavius, the shape of which it has clearly modified.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn

I should have liked to have shown them the splendid double-walled plain called Petavius, which has a convex floor some 800 feet higher in the centre than at the edges.

From To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Wicks, Mark