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    Tycho (lunar crater) - Wikipedia

    • Tycho is a relatively young crater, with an estimated age of 108 million years (Ma), based on analysis of samples of the crater ray recovered during the Apollo 17 mission. This age initially suggested that the impactor may have been a member of the Baptistina family of asteroids, but as the composition of the impactor is unknown this remained conjecture. H… See more

    Overview

    Tycho is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the southern lunar highlands, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601). It is estimated to be 108 million years old.
    To the sout… See more

    Names

    Tycho is named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. Like many of the craters on the Moon's near side, it was given its name by the Jesuit astronomer G.B. Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has becom… See more

    Fictional references

    • There is a chapter entitled "Tycho" in Jules Verne's Around the Moon (Autour de la Lune, 1870) which describes the crater and its ray system.
    • In R.A. Heinlein's 1940 short story "Blowups H… See more

    What happened to Tycho in his second year of life?
    Something rather remarkable happened to Tycho in his second year of life – he was kidnapped by his uncle and aunt, Jørgen Brahe and Inger Oxe, when his parents were away from home. Tycho’s uncle and aunt were childless, and they believed that Jørgen was entitled to a lawful son and heir to his estates.
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