Hinks Dorsum
42.00°
Ridge on 433 Eros. USGS Feature 2513. Center latitude printed 42.00°.
42.00°center latitude
NEAR Shoemaker · the ridge
NASA / JPL / JHUAPL. PIA02913. The ridge at sunrise, 20 May 2000. Part of the long northern ridge later catalogued as Hinks Dorsum (informally Rahe Dorsum). Scene about 1.4 km across. The 42.00° is the gazetteer pin, not this frame’s width.
The gazetteer prints it that way. Feature 2513, Hinks Dorsum, a ridge on 433 Eros named for Arthur Robert Hinks, who used Eros for solar parallax. In the +West system the center longitude is 318.00°. The WKT easting is 42. Same pin, two writings. About eighteen kilometres of thrust, in the papers. Not Himeros. Not a cipher.
Open Hinks Dorsum →Open PIA02913 →Himeros crater →Psyche crater →Enter Psyche →
Longing. Soul. A ridge at 42°.
Craters on Eros are named for lovers. Psyche is the beloved, the soul. Himeros is the attendant, the longing of love. Narcissus is the reflection. Those names are IAU myth, 2003. HIMEROS reduces to 42 in English. That is a later spelling. Hinks Dorsum, a ridge named for an astronomer, prints center latitude 42.00° in the USGS gazetteer. Cipher is not the latitude. 16 Psyche is another world. Same potato-shaped rock. Several rooms.
- soulPsyche crater
Beloved of Eros. Not asteroid 16. Not a 42.
- 42Himeros
Crater. Longing. English full reduction.
42.00°Hinks Dorsumhere
Ridge. Catalogue latitude.
Asteroid 16 is another world. 16 Psyche · 4 Vesta · psyche.grok.me · eros.grok.me. Narcissus crater is a USGS neighbor, not a 42.
A ridge on Eros prints at 42 degrees north in the gazetteer. Named for Arthur Robert Hinks, who used this asteroid to measure the Sun’s distance. The longing crater is next door, and is not this pin.
Four named
Hearth. Soul. Love. Longing.
Vesta is the hearth. Psyche is the soul. Eros is love. Himeros is longing. Four names from one old story, hung on four different rocks and one crater. The 42s are not the same kind. A spin pole is not a density. A cipher is not a catalogue number. The looking holds them without pretending they are one law.
- 42.23°Vesta
Hearth
The sacred fire. Spin pole. Moment 0.4208. Another world.
- 4.2016 Psyche
Soul
Metal world NASA is flying toward. Not the crater on Eros.
433433 Eroshere
Love
The love asteroid. Catalogue seat, not a 42. The 42s are rooms.
- 42Himeros
Longing
Attendant of Eros. English letters. A bowl on the love rock.
What it supports
USGS Feature 2513, IAU 2003. Center latitude 42.00°. Center longitude 318.00° in the +West 0-360 system. WKT POINT (42 42): east longitude 360 − 318 = 42. A catalogue seat, two writings of one pin. Watters et al. 2011: about 18 km of thrust. Dorsa on Eros are named for scientists, not lovers.
What it does not
Not HIMEROS = 42. Not a 42 km ridge. The diameter field in the gazetteer is 0.00. Not 16 Psyche. Not a lab re-measure this sitting.
Calculation
Center lat 42.00°. West lon 318.00°. East lon 42°.
IAU gazetteer print. Not a new survey.
ExactnessCoordinate
Form42°
Unit°
Strengthhard
When2003
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