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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

G. Bond Crater Honors American Astronomer George Phillips Bond

Summary: G. Bond Crater honors American astronomer George Phillips Bond, who co-discovered the seventh Saturnian moon with his father, William Cranch Bond.

G. Bond Crater honors American astronomer George Phillips Bond, who co-discovered the seventh Saturnian moon with his father, William Cranch Bond, whom he succeeded as Harvard College Observatory (HCO) director.

G. Bond is a lunar impact crater that occupies the near side’s northeastern quadrant. The roughly circular crater’s sloping inner walls create a bowl-shape effect with the interior floor.

G. Bond is centered at 32.39 degrees north latitude, 36.32 degrees east longitude, according to the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. The northern hemisphere crater confines northernmost and southernmost latitudes to 32.7 degrees north and 32.07 degrees north, respectively. It establishes easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 36.69 degrees east and 35.95 degrees east, respectively. G. Bond Crater has a diameter of 19.05 kilometers.

G. Bond parents five satellites. Three lie to the east of their parent. Two have southwesterly placements with respect to their parent.

G. Bond lies south of Lacus Somniorum (Lake of Dreams). The irregularly-shaped lunar mare is centered at 37.56 degrees north latitude, 30.8 degrees east longitude. The dark, basaltic plain’s northernmost and southernmost latitudes extend to 41.5 degrees north and 33.22 degrees north, respectively. Its easternmost and westernmost longitudes reach 39.15 degrees east and 22.04 degrees east, respectively. Lacus Somniorium’s length spans 424.76 kilometers.

Hall Crater is G. Bond’s nearest named, non-G. Bond Crater system crater. G. Bond Crater’s northern neighbor lies in southeastern Lacus Somniorum.

Hall Crater is centered at 33.81 degrees north latitude, 36.75 degrees east longitude. The lava-flooded crater obtains northernmost and southernmost latitudes at 34.33 degrees north and 33.29 degrees north, respectively. Its easternmost and westernmost longitudes occur at 37.38 degrees east and 36.12 degrees east, respectively. Hall Crater’s diameter measures 31.77 kilometers.

Rima G. Bond is a prominent rille (German: rille, “groove”) that receives its name from nearby G. Bond Crater. Rima G. Bond displays a somewhat arcing north-south orientation in its course to the west of G. Bond Crater and Hall Crater. Southeastern Lacus Somniorum claims the rille’s northern end. It finds its southern end near eastern G. Bond B.

Rima G. Bond is centered at 32.86 degrees north latitude, 35.25 degrees east longitude. It records northernmost and southernmost latitudes of 35.22 degrees north and 30.32 degrees north. It registers easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 36.61 degrees east and 34.96 degrees east, respectively. Rima G. Bond’s length spans 166.85 kilometers.

G. Bond Crater honors American astronomer George Phillips Bond (May 20, 1825-Feb. 17, 1865). The International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved G. Bond as the crater’s official name in 1935, during the organization’s Vth (5th) General Assembly, held in Paris, France, from Wednesday, July 10, to Wednesday, July 17. The letter designations for the G. Bond Crater system's five satellites were approved in 2006.

Harvard College Observatory was founded in 1839 with George Phillips Bond’s father, American astronomer William Cranch Bond (Sept. 9, 1789-Jan. 29, 1859), as “Astronomical Observer to the University.” In 1846, William Cranch Bond was appointed as the observatory’s first director, with his son George as his assistant. Upon his father’s death in 1859, George was appointed as the observatory’s second director.

Astrophotography numbers among the father-and-son team’s areas of astronomical expertise. In the September 1890 issue of Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, American astronomers Edward Singleton Holden (Nov. 5, 1846-March 16, 1914) and William Wallace Campbell (April 11, 1862-June 14, 1938) credited the Bonds with the “first photographs of stars,” which were taken in the decade 1850 to 1860 at the Harvard College Observatory (page 250).

George Bond and American early photographer John Adams Whipple (Sept. 10, 1822-April 10, 1891) obtained the first photograph of a star on July 17, 1850, with their capture of the image of Alpha Lyrae (α Lyrae; Alpha Lyr, α Lyr), known traditionally as Vega, the brightest star in Lyra the Lyre constellation. Bond and Whipple used Harvard College Observatory’s 15-inch (38 centimeter) refractor telescope for their capture of Vega’s image on a 100-second exposure Daguerreotype plate, according to British astronomer and astronomy historian Stefan Hughes in his history of astrophotography, Catchers of the Light, published in 2012 (page 466).

The takeaways for G. Bond Crater, which honors American astronomer George Phillips Bond, are that the lunar impact crater lies southeast of Lacus Somniorum (Lake of Dreams) in the near side’s northeastern quadrant; that G. Bond Crater parents five satellites; that the lunar crater’s namesake was appointed in 1846 as assistant to his father, William Cranch Bond, at Harvard College Observatory; that he partnered with American early photographer John Adams Whipple to obtain the first photograph of a star, Vega (Alpha Lyrae) on July 17, 1850; and that, upon his father’s death in 1859, he succeeded his father as the observatory’s director.

Detail of Shaded Relief and Color-Coded Topography Map shows G. Bond Crater (lower right) as a middle-latitude crater lying southeast of Lacus Somniorum (Lake of Dreams) in the near side’s northeastern quadrant: U.S. Geological Survey, Public Domain, via USGS Astrogeology Science Center / Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Detail of Lunar Orbiter 4 photo shows G. Bond Crater (upper center; E-D 4-5) below flooded Hall Crater (E-D 2-3.5), with Rima G. Bond to the west (left; FE 1-7; D.E. Bowker and J.K. Hughes, Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon (1971), plate 124, Photo No. IV-79-H1: Public Domain, via NASA NTRS (NASA Technical Reports Server) @ https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730005152.pdf; via USRA (Universities Space Research Association) LPI (Lunar and Planetary Institute) @ https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/lunar_orbiter/bin/info.shtml?187

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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Bennu Herons Perhaps Avert Elementary's A Giant Gun Filled With Drugs

Summary: Bennu herons perhaps are the ancient ash-arising phoenixes that a consulting detective admires on Elementary's A Giant Gun Filled with Drugs Feb. 7, 2013.

Bennu heron (Ardea bennuides) describes extinct gray heron species that may have been associated with Bennu bird of resurrection in ancient Egyptian mythology: Denis Bezmelnitsin @Bezmelnitsin, via Twitter Jan. 31, 2013

Bennu herons perhaps account for allusions on Elementary's procedural drama television series episode A Giant Gun Filled with Drugs Feb. 7, 2013, to arise as phoenixes from the ashes of drug abuse.

Director Guy Ferland and writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Liz Friedman and Christopher Silber bring together a recovering dealer and a recovering user on Season One's 15th episode. Joan Watkins (Lucy Liu), addiction counselor and sober companion to drug ex-user Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) considers drug ex-dealer Rhys Kinlan's (John Hannah) company counterproductive. Rhys deems that Sherlock alone draws upon the daring, deductive detective skills to divine the former's daughter Emily Grant's (Allie Gallerani) whereabouts with dangerous, ransom-demanding abductors.

Sherlock elucidates their co-destructive experiences as "And it's worth nothing, he is an ex-dealer, just as I am an ex-junkie. Two phoenixes risen from the ashes."

Mythology-fed ancient Greek and even more ancient Egyptian art, histories, literatures and religions respectively featured phoenixes by the 25th century B.C.E. and the sixth century B.C.E.

Herodotus (484?-425? B.C.E. guided anthropologists, archaeologists, linguists and paleontologists to ancient Egypt as generator of phoenix presences through Book II in The Histories of 440 B.C.E. Peninsular Greece's Mycenaean civilization (1600-1100 B.C.E.) harbors the word phoenix (from Greek φοῖνῐξ, "crimson purple," "date [palm fruit]," guitar-like instrument invented by Phoenicians, mythical bird, "Phoenician"). It inherited the phoenix mythology from the ancient Egyptian word bnw, indicated hieroglyphically as lower leg and foot, pot, six-crested wave, quail chick and Bennu-bird deity.

Perhaps Bennu herons, as Chapter 73's phoenixes, join sacred cats, crocodiles, hippopotamuses, otters and serpents in Book II, Euterpé (from Greek Εὐτέρπη, "muse of lyric poetry").

Herodotus knew phoenixes from images and from information from Nile Delta inhabitants of Heliopolis (from Greek Ἡλιούπολις, "City of the Sun," from Egyptian I͗wnw, "The Pillars").

The 73rd chapter in The Histories' second book, labeled Euterpé, lists phoenixes as leaving Arabia every 500 years to land at Heliopolis' Temple of the Sun. Death motivated quincentennial migrations across the modern-day Arabian Peninsula, perhaps from Umm al-Nar (from Arabic أُمّ الـنَّـار‎, "Mother of the Fire") in modern-day United Arab Emirates. Phoenixes nestle dead parents within huge balls of myrrh (Commiphora) that necessitate plastering fresh myrrh over insertion openings to net "the same weight as at first."

Herodotus observed phoenixes artistically with gold and red plumage over body shapes and sizes similarly observable in eagles (Accipitridae family) and hieroglyphically perhaps as Bennu herons.

New Kingdom art of the 18th through 20th dynasties, from the 16th through 11th centuries B.C.E. poses long-beaked gray herons with two-feathered crests atop benben stones.

Ella Hoch, Copenhagen University Geological Museum professor (1974-2000) and, since 2000, Gram Museum of Paleontology research associate, qualifies Bennu herons as quintessential phoenixes from Umm al-Nar. She realized the scientific classification Ardea bennuides (from Latin ardea, "heron"; Egyptian Bennu, god of death; and Greek -ειδής, "-like") from a tibio-tarsus (lower leg bone) fragment. The benben stone to creation from watery chaos, the god Bennu (from Egyptian wbn, "to rise in brilliance") and Umm al-Nar source phoenixes in Bennu herons.

Herodotus, Hoch and Holmes perhaps turn bone from 3050 B.C.E. reconstructively into Goliath (Ardea goliath), gray (Ardea cinerea) and purple (Ardea purpurea) heron-like Bennu heron phoenixes.

Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) doubts self'-described "ex-junkie" Sherlock Holmes' (Jonny Lee Miller) characterization of a surprise visit by ex-drug dealer Rhys Kinlan (John Hannah) as "Two phoenixes risen from the ashes" in CBS Elementary's A Giant Gun Filled With Drugs (season 1 episode 15): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Feb. 6, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

"A Giant Gun Filled with Drugs." Elementary: The First Season. Los Angeles CA: Paramount Pictures Corporation, Feb. 7, 2013.

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Marriner, Derdriu. 9 February 2013. "Frankincense Tree Essential Oils Affirm Elementary's The Deductionist." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 1 February 2013. “Russian Tortoise Natural History Illustrations and Elementary's Clyde Jan. 31, 2013.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 17 November 2012. "Are Juices From Trifoliate Oranges on Elementary's One Way to Get Off?" Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Marriner, Derdriu. 10 November 2012. "Saltmeadow Cordgrass Adheres to a Body on Elementary's Flight Risk." Earth and Space News. Saturday.
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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Frankincense Tree Essential Oils Affirm Elementary's The Deductionist

Summary: Frankincense tree essential oils assume crime-solving aspects in a kidney transplant candidate's abode on Elementary's The Deductionist Feb. 3, 2013.

Queen's Freddie Mercury, Parsee-born as Farrokh Bulsara, may have been familiar in childhood with frankincense trees (Boswellia sacra) and their essential oils, brought anciently from Persia to Bethlehem by the Three Wise Men; Queen's (left to right) Brian May, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury and John Deacon; Queen @Queen, via Facebook April 13, 2011

Frankincense tree essential oils affirm deductive analyses by a consulting detective about the criminal agenda of a kidney transplant candidate on Elementary procedural drama television series episode The Deductionist Feb. 3, 2013.

Director John Polson and writers Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny bare frankincense tree essential oils to betray two siblings' criminal blame on Season One's 14th episode. Patricia Ennis (Jessica Hecht) convinces New York prison authorities to conduct her brother Howard (Terry Kinney) to Saint Gerard's Hospital operating room for kidney transplant procedures. Howard, serial killer described as the peeler for skinning blonde female victims, departs with both kidneys and with the entire attending hospital and prison staff dead.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) espy frankincense, "highly toxic when ingested," and, enigmatically for kidney-compromised Patricia, "especially to the renal system."

Trees scientifically named Boswellia frereana, Boswellia papyrifera, Boswellia sacra (for Dr. John Boswell, 1710-1780, from Latin sacra, "sacred") and Boswellia serrata furnish frankincense tree essential oils.

A 4,000-plus-year-old trading history has among its cultural highlights frankincense trees harvested by ancient Egyptians for royal mummification, such as Tutankhamen's (1341?-1323 B.C.E.), 18th Dynasty pharaoh. Frankincense trees (from Old French franc encens, "pure incense" and literally "free lighting"), as Boswellia sacra, generate world-famous resins from which Patricia perhaps got essential oils. Christians and Parsee (from Sanskrit पारसि, "[Zoroastrian] Perso-Iranian") descendants of the Three Wise Men who visited Jesus (5 BCE?-29 C.E.?) include frankincense in their religious ceremonies.

Freddie Mercury (Sept. 5, 1946-Nov. 24, 1991) perhaps journeyed around frankincense trees during his Parsee childhood as Farrokh Bulsara before journeying worldwide as Queen lead vocalist.

Frankincense trees know propagation by cuttings and by seeds from three- to five-angled 0.32- to 0.47-inch (8- to 12-millimeter) fruit capsules kindled by 3.94-inch (10-centimeter) flowers.

Frankincense trees locate fruit-producing ovaries within fleshy discs within five-toothed cups with five white-yellow petals and 10 pollen-producing stamens for April-blooming branch-tip clusters amid branch-tip foliage. Tangled branches manifest compound, deciduous, opposite-positioned leaves with downy surfaces when young and with odd numbers of leaflets munched upon by browsing animals, especially commercial livestock. Tappers net pale drip-collected and red scrape-collected oleo-gum-resins from the Burseraceae (for Joachim Burser, 1583-Aug. 28, 1639, from Latin -āceae, "-like") family member's papery, peeling bark.

Oleo-gum-resins obtainable throughout mature, 6.56- to 26.25-foot (2- to 8-meter) tall, three-plus-year-old frankincense trees, observed by Friedrich Flückinger (May 15, 1828-Dec. 11, 1894), offer essential oils.

Buttress roots to one trunk with a swollen base or to many stems with swollen bases plants frankincense trees firmly amid boulders or into rocky faces.

Frankincense trees queue up quintessential oils in the Arabian Peninsula's mountain woodlands of southern Yemen and southwest Oman and in northeast Africa's rocky, steep-sloped northern Somalia. They require chalky soils rich in calcium carbonates in desert and fog-oasis woodlands and rocky limestone gullies and slopes through 3,937.01-foot (1,200-meter) altitudes above sea level. Agro-industrial stress from livestock farming and ranching, logging and over-harvesting suggest near-threatened survival and sustainability of frankincense trees to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Frankincense trees take on pollutant particles, thrust out air-friendly oxygen and soil-friendly exudates and, through frankincense tree essential oils, treat aromatherapy, not kidney, patients and theists.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) study a depiction of Constellation Cassiopeia as possible aid for deducing locations of serial killer Howard Ennis' (Terry Kinney) next two intended crime scenes in CBS Elementary's The Deductionist (season 1 episode 14): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Feb. 3, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Dreyer Crater Parents Six Satellites Along Eastern Mare Marginis

Summary: Dreyer Crater parents six satellites along eastern Mare Marginis in the equatorial latitudes of the far side portion of the northern hemisphere.

Detail of oblique view, obtained 1971 with 70mm Hasselblad camera during Apollo 14 mission, shows lunar far side’s Dreyer Crater (center left) with intrusive satellites Dreyer C (right; east) and Dreyer K (below; south-southeast); Dreyer D is east (right) of Dreyer C and south (below) of joined satellites Ginzel H (with bright east side) and Ginzel G; Dreyer J (lower left center) is next to Dreyer K; NASA ID AS14-71-9889: James Stuby (Jstuby), Public Domain (CC0 1.0), via Wikimedia Commons

Dreyer Crater parents six satellites along eastern Mare Marginis (Sea of the Edge) as an equatorial-latitude crater system in the far side’s portion of the moon’s northern hemisphere.

Dreyer Crater is centered at 10.24 degrees north latitude, 97.09 degrees east longitude, according to the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. The northern hemisphere crater obtains its northernmost and southernmost latitudes at 11.29 degrees north and 9.18 degrees north, respectively. The eastern hemisphere crater’s easternmost and westernmost longitudes occur at 98.16 degrees east and 96.03 degrees east, respectively. Gill Crater’s diameter spans 63.84 kilometers.

Dreyer Crater parents six satellites on the lunar far side, just beyond the near side’s northeastern limb. Two of the Gill Crater system’s six satellites associate with their parent’s western side. Four of the Gill Crater system’s six craters are east-side residents.

Dreyer Crater lies along the eastern edge of Mare Marginis (Sea of the Edge). The equatorial-latitude lunar mare (Latin: mare, “sea”) wraps around the lunar near side’s northeastern limb in its occupancy of far side and near side portions of the moon’s eastern and northern hemispheres.

Dreyer R and Dreyer W associate with their parent’s western side. Dreyer R resides to the southwest of its parent. Dreyer R’s placement qualifies it as the most southerly and the most westerly of the Dreyer Crater system’s six satellites. Dreyer W lies to the northwest of its parent. Dreyer W’s placement qualifies it as the most northerly of the Dreyer Crater system’s six satellites.

Dreyer R is centered at 8.49 degrees north latitude, 94.48 degrees east longitude. Satellite R confines its northernmost and southernmost latitudes to 8.79 degrees north and 8.2 degrees north, respectively. It restricts its easternmost and westernmost longitudes to 94.78 degrees east and 94.17 degrees east, respectively. Dreyer R has a diameter of 18.08 kilometers.

Dreyer W is centered at 11.77 degrees north latitude, 95.8 degrees east longitude. It posts northernmost and southernmost latitudes of 12.28 degrees north and 11.26 degrees north, respectively. It marks its easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 96.32 degrees east and 95.28 degrees east, respectively. Dreyer W’s diameter spans 30.74 kilometers.

Dreyer C, Dreyer D, Dreyer J and Dreyer K claim locations associated with their parent’s eastern side. Dreyer C and Dreyer K intrude across their parent’s northeastern and southeastern borders, respectively. Dreyer D’s location to the east of Dreyer C qualifies it as the most easterly of the Dreyer Crater system’s six satellites. Dreyer J neighbors along Dreyer K’s eastern side.

Dreyer C is centered at 11 degrees north latitude, 98.26 degrees east longitude. It records northernmost and southernmost latitudes of 11.59 degrees north and 10.42 degrees north, respectively. It registers easternmost and westernmost longitudes of 98.85 degrees east and 97.66 degrees east, respectively. Dreyer C’s diameter of 35.44 kilometers qualifies it as the largest of the Dreyer Crater system’s six satellites.

Dreyer D is centered at 10.71 degrees north latitude, 99.83 degrees east longitude. Its northernmost and southernmost latitudes are confined to 11.12 degrees north and 10.3 degrees north, respectively. Its easternmost and westernmost longitudes are restricted to 100.25 degrees east and 99.42 degrees east, respectively. Dreyer D’s diameter of 10.71 kilometers qualifies it as the smallest of the Dreyer Crater system’s six satellites.

Dreyer J is centered at 9.02 degrees north latitude, 98.52 degrees east longitude. Its northernmost and southernmost latitudes are found at 9.46 degrees north and 8.58 degrees north, respectively. Its easternmost and westernmost longitudes are posted at 98.97 degrees east and 98.07 degrees east, respectively. Dreyer J’s diameter measures 26.85 kilometers.

Dreyer K is centered at 9.24 degrees north latitude, 97.73 degrees east longitude. It narrows its northernmost and southernmost latitudes to 9.59 degrees north and 8.88 degrees north, respectively. It trims its easternmost and westernmost longitudes to 98.09 degrees east and 97.37 degrees east, respectively. Dreyer K’s diameter measures 21.56 kilometers.

The takeaways for Dreyer Crater’s parentage of six satellites along eastern Mare Marginis (Sea of the Edge) are that two satellites, Dreyer R and Dreyer W, lie to the west of their parent; that Dreyer C, Dreyer D, Dreyer J and Dreyer K are east-side residents; that Dreyer C and Dreyer D qualify as the far side crater system’s largest and smallest satellites, respectively; that Dreyer W and Dreyer D qualify as the Dreyer Crater system’s most northerly and most easterly satellites, respectively; and that outlying Dreyer R qualifies as the Dreyer Crater system’s most southerly and most westerly satellite.

Details of Lunar Astronautical Chart (LAC) 64 shows the lunar far side’s Dreyer Crater with its six satellites along the eastern edge of Mare Marginis (Sea of the Edge); courtesy NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) / GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center) / ASU (Arizona State University): Public Domain, via USGS Astrogeology Science Center / Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

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Friday, February 1, 2013

Russian Tortoise Natural History Illustrations and Elementary's Clyde Jan. 31, 2013

Summary: Russian tortoise natural history illustrations convey what Clyde cannot on healthy lifestyles and looks in Elementary episode The Red Team Jan. 31, 2013.

Russian tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii) on a walk; Friday, May 27, 2005, 13:20: Väsk, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

A Russian tortoise attracts attention as an abandoned animal in the Columbia Broadcasting System's procedural drama series Elementary Jan. 31, 2013, and, because of classification controversies, in Russian tortoise natural history illustrations.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) brings the Russian tortoise Clyde from hanging victim Len Pontecorvo's apartment to his Brooklyn brownstone, purportedly for soup, really for experiments. Director Christine Moore and writers Robert Doherty, Jeffrey Paul King and Craig Sweeny change one tortoise for another every other scene in season one's 13th episode. Viewers detect differences between the duo with difficulty, just as chelonologists (tortoise specialists) still discuss distinguishing distinct Russian tortoise subspecies under the one genus and species.

The name Clyde encompasses two tortoises just as Russian tortoise natural history illustrations evoke one genus or more, one species, eight common names and three subspecies.

Scientists furnish the first-place genus and second-place species names Agrionemys horsfieldii ("Horsfield's wild-natured [tortoise]") or Testudo horsfieldii ("Horsfield's shelled [tortoise]") for Russian tortoise natural history illustrations.

British zoologist John Edward Gray (Feb. 12, 1800-March 7, 1875) generated Afghan, Afghanistan, Central Asian, four-clawed, Horsfield's, Russian, Russian steppe and steppe tortoise descriptions in 1844. Tortoises honoring American naturalist Thomas Horsfield (May 12, 1773-July 24, 1859) have first-named Agrionemys/Testudo horsfieldii horsfieldii and subsidiary Agrionemys/Testudo horsfieldii kazakhstanica and Agrionemys/Testudo horsfieldii rustamovi subspecies. Paleobiologist Viacheslav Mikhailovich Chkhikvadze includes as additional susidiary subspecies Agrionemys/Testudo horsfieldii bogdanovi since 2008, Agrionemys/Testudo horsfieldii kuznetzovi since 2009 and Agrionemys /Testudo horsfieldii terbishi since 2009.

Russian tortoise natural history illustrations juggle species-specific and subspecies-unique native populations in Afghanistan, Armenia, Balochistan, China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Russian tortoise subspecies keep to desert habitats with cold winters, cool nights, dry hot summers, 12-hour days except during aestivation and 12-hour nights except during hibernation.

Russian tortoise natural history illustrations sometimes let in some native hilly, rocky, sandy-soiled landscapes with grassy, vegetated springs up to 8,202.1-foot (2,50-meter) altitudes above sea level. Mature females and males need four burrowing, climbing-friendly toes and net 6- to 10-inch- (15.24- to 25.4-centimeter-) and 5- to 8-inch (12.7- to 20.32-centimeter-) long bodies. Soils malleable 6.56 feet (2 meters) down and warm-weather temperatures nightly and daily at 40 and 95 degrees Fahrenheit 15.5 and 35 degrees Celsius) maintain tortoises.

Maturity offers 4-plus-inch- (10.16-centimeter-) long, long-clawed, long-tailed males slit-shaped vents nearer spur-tipped tails and 6-plus-inch- (15.24-centimeter-) long, short-clawed, short-tailed females asterisk-shaped vents nearer plastrons (lower shells).

Females produce multiple clutches of one to six semi-white, 0.56- to 1.06-ounce (16- to 30-gram) eggs within which blood vessels pulse two to four weeks later.

Eight- to 16-week incubations at 85 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit (29.44 to 32.22 degrees Celsius) queue up, after two-day breakouts, folded-over, 1-inch- (2.54-centimeter-) long, sideways-lodged hatchlings. Fourteen-day yolk sacs rally hatchlings whereas Russian tortoise natural history illustrations relay juveniles and adults requiring grasses and herbaceous, succulent flowers, fruits, leaves, stems and twigs. Broadleaf and mixed forests, deserts, grasslands and shrublands sustain brown-jawed, yellow-necked adults with black-, olive-, red-, yellow-brown upper shells and black-brown-yellow bodies, heads, limbs and plastrons.

Russian tortoise natural history illustrations transmit healthy lifestyles and looks that turn Clyde toward 50- to 100-year life cycles despite agro-industry, collection, eco-stress and political turmoil.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Detective Marcus Bell (Jon Michael Hill) in CBS Elementary's The Red Team (season 1 episode 13): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Jan. 30, 2013

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Russian tortoise (Agrionemys horsfieldii) on a walk; Friday, May 27, 2005, 13:20: Väsk, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Testudo_horsfieldii_walking.jpg

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Detective Marcus Bell (Jon Michael Hill) in CBS Elementary's The Red Team (season 1 episode 13): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Jan. 30, 2013, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/218467664945019

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