Tolansky is a small, circular
lunar
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impact crater that is located due south of the crater
Parry
PARRY was an early example of a chatbot, implemented in 1972 by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby.
History
PARRY was written in 1972 by psychiatrist Kenneth Colby, then at Stanford University. While ELIZA was a tongue-in-cheek simulation of a Rogeria ...
on the
Mare Cognitum
Mare Cognitum (Latin ''cognitum'', the "Sea that has Become Known") is a lunar mare located in a basin or large crater which sits in the second ring of Oceanus Procellarum. To the northwest of the mare is the Montes Riphaeus mountain range, part ...
. The formation is symmetric, with a light-hued outer rim and a darker interior floor. A
rille belonging to the Rimae Parry almost connects with the north-northwestern rim of Tolansky.
It was named after British physicist
Samuel Tolansky
Samuel Tolansky, born Turlausky, FRAS FRSA FInstP FRS (17 November 1907 – 4 March 1973), is a British physicist. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize, has a crater on the moon named after him near the Apollo 14 landing site and he was a princ ...
.
Tolansky
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN) It was formerly known as Parry A, prior to its current name being approved by the IAU
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in 1976.
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External links
LTO-76C1 Bonpland
— L&PI topographic orthophotomap map.
AS16-P-5423
a high-resolution image of Tolansky and terrain to the north and south
Impact craters on the Moon