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Letronne

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[li-trohn] / lɪˈtroʊn /

noun

  1. a walled plain in the third quadrant of the face of the moon: about 60 miles (100 km) in diameter.


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On the W. of Billy and Hansteen is a wide inlet of the Oceanus Procellarum, bounded by the Letronne region on the W., and on the S. by lofty highlands.

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

WICHMANN.—This bright crater, about 5 miles in diameter, stands on a light area in Oceanus Procellarum, N.N.W. of Letronne and nearly due E. of Euclides.

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

Letronne has pointed out, that the battle of Actium having been fought on the 2nd of September, B.C.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

If Letronne is observed under oblique illumination, the low mounds and ridges on the Mare outside impress one with the idea that they represent the remains of a once complete N. wall.

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

These words, as Letronne remarked à propos of this passage, combine the ideas of a tiled roof and of one with a ridge.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong

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