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Bowditch is a lunar crater that lies on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the eastern limb. It is located on a region of the lunar surface that is brought into view due to libration, but at such times the area is viewed from the edge and so not much detail can be observed. It lies just to the north of the small Lacus Solitudinis lunar mare, between the craters Titius to the southwest and Perel'man to the east-northeast.
The rim of this crater is open to the southwest and the crater is elongated to the northeast, possibly due to a merged crater. The outer rim varies in height, with the most prominent sections being the southwest face and a ridge mount to the northwest. The interior floor has been flooded with basaltic lava, an unusual feature for a crater on the far side. The interior floor is generally flat, and marked by a number of small craters. However, there are some low ridges in the surface that are concentric with the inner wall. A formation of irregular ridges occupies most of the rim gap along the southwest. Bowditch is described in the Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report, along with Lacus Oblivionis to the south, as a significant volcanic feature:
:On the southwest wall of the oblong crater (Bowditch)...is a distinct " strand line," marking the highest level reached by lava before cooling and withdrawal....A faint trace of this line exists in other parts of the wall. A prominent terrace (around all except the southern part of the outer edges of the floor) marks another state in the subsidence of the lava.
Bowditch may refer to:
People- Ben Bowditch (born 1984), English footballer
- Brian Bowditch (born 1961), British mathematician
- Clare Bowditch (born 1975), Australian musician
- Dean Bowditch (born 1986), English footballer
- Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808–1892), American abolitionist, physician, public reformer
- Henry Pickering Bowditch (1840–1911), American physiologist, Dean of Harvard Medical School
- Ian Bowditch (born 1939), Australian fencer
- Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), American mathematician and author of Bowditch's American Practical Navigator
- Steven Bowditch (born 1983), Australian professional golfer
- Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, an encyclopedia of navigation
- USCS Bowditch, a United States Coast Survey schooner in service from 1854 to 1874
- USNS Bowditch, the name of more than one United States Navy Military Sealift Command ship
- USS Bowditch (AG-30), later AGS-4, a United States Navy survey ship in commission from 1940 to 1947
- Bowditch (crater), a lunar crater
- Bowditch Field, sports venue in Massachusetts, United States
- Bowditch School, historic school in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Usage examples of "bowditch".
Fallis Jared Bowditch and his sister Lisa came to our office on a fine summer afternoon, toting a human skull in a Pottery Barn shopping bag.
So Sweeney and I agreed to take the case and see what we could come up with in the ten days before Poppa Bowditch returned.
Lisa Bowditch opened her purse and pulled out a fat Montblanc pen and a checkbook with a mauve corduroy cover.
He took himself down to the police station to try to wangle his old cop buddies into letting him look at the old Bowditch missing person file.
I began to look into the background of Matthew Bowditch, recently retired father to Lisa and Jared, owner of trunks filled with skulls.
I learned that Poppa Bowditch was born in 1922, the second son of a prosperous New England shoe manufacturer.
By 1960 Poppa Bowditch had himself a family, a thriving career, and solid professional reputation.
The last mention of Bowditch in the newspapers was a couple of years old.
What Sweeney learned was this: Dora Bowditch went missing eighteen years earlier and nobody had a clue what might have happened to her.
The friend who was waiting to meet her in Connecticut called Poppa Bowditch, who called the local police, who called the Connecticut police.
The police spent some time trying to see if Dora Bowditch might have had a reason to disappear.
I guess none of the Bowditch kids ever had to earn their allowance by doing lawn chores.
About the time Matthew and Dora Bowditch became grandparents for the first time, Dora underwent a sort of personality change.
Park worked together and over the course of a few years they turned the backyard of the Bowditch estate into something remarkable.
Sweeney and I assured Bowditch we knew how kids are, although neither of us have any.