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Wegener is the surname of:
- Alfred Wegener (1880–1930), German geologist and meteorologist
- Kapitänleutnant Bernhard Wegener, commander of German submarine U-27, killed in one of the two Baralong incidents in 1915
- Bertha Frensel Wegener (1874–1953), Dutch composer and music educator
- Bobby Wegener, American lawyer and Oklahoma's Secretary of Energy from 2008-2011
- Manuela (singer) (1943–2001), German singer Doris Inge Wegener
- Einar Mogens Wegener (1882–1931), birth name of transsexual pioneer Lili Elbe
- Emmy Wegener (1901–1973), Dutch violinist, pianist, poet and composer
- Frederico or Federico Wegener, aliases of Eduard Roschmann (1908–1977), Nazi SS officer known as the "Butcher of Riga"
- Friedrich Wegener (1907–1990), German pathologist
- Gerda Wegener (1886–1940), Danish illustrator
- Ingo Wegener (1950–2008), German computer scientist
- Kurt Wegener (1878–1964), German polar explorer and meteorologist, brother of Alfred
- Mike Wegener (born 1946), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Otto Wegener (1881–1938), Danish sports shooter
- Paul Wegener (1874–1948), German actor and film director
- Paul Wegener (Nazi) (1908–1993), German Nazi Party official
- Stephen T. Wegener (born 1952), American psychologist
- Ulrich Wegener (born 1929), German police officer
- Wilhelm Wegener (1895–1944), German general during World War II
- Wolfgang Wegener (1875–1956), German admiral and naval historian
Category:German-language surnames
Wegener is a lunar impact crater that is located in the Moon's northern hemisphere, about midway between the equator and the north pole. It lies on the far side from the Earth, behind the northwestern limb. The southwestern rim of Wegener intrudes slightly into the much larger walled plain Landau. Attached to the eastern rim is the crater Stefan.
This crater is in an intermediate stage of impact erosion, with a worn rim and some craters overlapping the edge and inner wall. The rim is generally more eroded in the northern half. A small crater lies across the western inner wall and part of the interior floor. There is a small, cup-shaped craterlet just to the east of this feature. The inner wall is wider in the southern half, leaving some irregularities on the southern half of the floor. The remainder of the interior is a nearly level and featureless plain.
Wegener lies at the approximate margin of the Coulomb-Sarton Basin, a 530 km wide impact crater of Pre-Nectarian age.
The crater was named after the German geophysicist, polar researcher and meteorologist Alfred Wegener, originator of the theory of Plate tectonics.
Koninklijke Wegener NV was a Dutch publisher of newspapers. It was the largest publisher of daily regional newspapers, free local newspapers and special interest magazines in the Netherlands. It also sold internet products and graphical products. The company ceased to exist when it was acquired by Belgian media company De Persgroep in 2015.
Wegener is a surname. It may also refer to:
Places:
- Wegener Range, an Antarctic mountain range
- Mount Wegener, an Antarctic mountain in the Read Mountains in the Shackleton Range
- Wegener Canyon, an undersea canyon
- Wegener Halvo Formation, a geologic formation in Greenland
- Wegener (lunar crater)
- Wegener (Martian crater)
- 29227 Wegener, a main-belt asteroid
Businesses:
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
- Wegener (television), a maker of television broadcast equipment
- Wegener (company), a Dutch media conglomerate
Wegener Crater is an impact crater in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars, located at 64.6°S latitude and 4.0°W longitude. It is 76.8 km in diameter and was named after Alfred Wegener, and the name was approved in 1973. The pictures show dunes defrosting.
Dark spots appear on dunes in the higher latitudes of Mars. In these spots mineral grains may be covered with a thin film of water that may affect chemical weathering of minerals and may help possible Martian organisms to survive. Studies have shown that thin films of water could exist at times on the Martian surface at certain times and in certain locations. In places, thin layers of liquid water could be present for 38 sols (Martian days) in the warmer periods of the day. Dark spots appear on dunes in the higher latitudes of Mars.
Sometimes geysers form near the spots. They have two main features (dark dune spots and spider channels) that appear at the beginning of the Martian spring on dune fields covered with carbon dioxide (CO or 'dry ice'), mainly at the ridges and slopes of the dunes; by the beginning of winter, they disappear. Dark spots' shape is generally round, on the slopes it is usually elongated.
With the stronger sunshine of spring in certain regions, carbon dioxide gas jets shoot dark dust in the air. This dark dust will increase the absorption of light and cause the temperature to rise to where water can exist for short periods.
Usage examples of "wegener".
While Christine Jorgensen was not the first male to undergo sexual reassignment surgery -- the Danish painter Einar Wegener had the operation in 1933 and changed his name to Lill Elbe -- she was the first transsexual to receive world-wide publicity.
Unfortunately, Alfred Wegener was not the man that geologists wished to provide it.
What Wegener found at Cape May was the last and best true school of seamanship in the Western world.
As long ago as 1912, the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener based his then revolutionary proposal of continental drift on exactly this kind of information, and his work was subsequently expanded by many investigators.
No mechanism was known for continental drift (now subsumed in plate tectonics) when it was proposed by Alfred Wegener in the first quarter of the twentieth century to explain a range of puzzling data in geology and palaeontology.
She was also cute as a button, and that was something Wegener had never thought of an ensign before.
Worse, The Honorable Janko Wegener, the Saginaw sector governor, was even more venal than most, and it seemed obvious to ONI that he saw the turmoil in his command area as one more opportunity to line his pockets.