Monday, April 11, 2011

Lunar Backside

Lunar Farside: Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)
Mendeleev, Landau, Lebedev, Lemonosov,
Lobachevski, Popov, Chebyshev, Evdokimov.

Why so many Slavic names
On hidden lunar farside craters?
Cause Soviet cameras saw them first
NASA's lenses got there later.

Gagarin, Feoktisov, Golitsyn, Zhukovski,
Kurchatov, Numerov, Rasumnov, Tsilokovski.


Fair planetoid that shapes our tides
Twenty-two hundred miles wide
Here's where they're immortalized
Russians on the moon's backside.