P. Briault Explained

Paul Briault was a French astronomer.^[1]

Between 1916 and 1918 he observed the surface features of Mercury and published his maps as one of the first available at the time.

A crater on Mars was named in his honor.^[2]

External links

• History of Mercury observations
• List of Mercury observation published in Observations des Surfaces Planetaires

Notes and References

1. Societe Astronomique de France. Seance du Mercredi 16 Juin 1915 . Touchet . Em. . L'Astronomie . 29 . 246–261 . 1915 . 1915LAstr..29..246T . See pp. 251–252.
2. The new Martian nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union . 1 . de Vaucouleurs . G. . Blunck . J. . Davies . M. . Dollfus . A. . Koval . I. K. . Kuiper . G. P. . Masursky . H. . Miyamoto . S. . Moroz . V. I. . Sagan . Carl . Smith . Bradford . Icarus . 26 . 1 . September 1975 . 85−98 . 10.1016/0019-1035(75)90146-3 . 1975Icar...26...85D .