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Rimae Pettit
Rimae Pettit is an IAU-approved lunar rille system (rima, rimae) near crater Pettit at 25.22S, 93.63W, adopted in 1985, about 320-450 km across, with Rimae Golitsyn recorded as part of it.
Rimae Pitatus
Rimae Pitatus is a system of rilles, mostly concentric fractures around the inner wall of the lava-flooded crater Pitatus on Mare Nubium, named by the IAU in 1964.
Rimae Plato
Rimae Plato, a system of lunar rilles (rimae) near the crater Plato on the Moon's northern near side, IAU-approved in 1964, centered at 50.88°N, 3.02°W with a gazetteer diameter of 180 km.
Rimae Plinius
Rimae Plinius is a 124 km system of parallel lunar rilles north of crater Plinius at the Mare Serenitatis-Tranquillitatis boundary, IAU-approved in 1964, named from the nearby crater, and bounded by faults studied via Apollo 17 data.
Rimae Posidonius
Rimae Posidonius is a sinuous lunar rille system over 130 km long on the floor of the floor-fractured crater Posidonius at Mare Serenitatis's northeast edge, carved by turbulent lava and IAU-approved in 1964.
Rimae Ramsden
Rimae Ramsden, a 100 km system of lunar rilles near crater Ramsden at about 32.9S, 31.3W on the Moon's near side; IAU-approved 1964, mapped on quad LAC-111.
Rimae Repsold
Rimae Repsold is an IAU-approved system of lunar rilles (fissures) near crater Repsold at 50.74°N, 80.46°W, approved 1985, spanning about 152 km, with a main 2 km wide, 120 km long rille bisecting the crater floor.
Rimae Riccioli
Rimae Riccioli, a system of linear lunar rilles on the floor of the crater Riccioli at about 2S, 74W near the Moon's western limb; IAU-approved, over 400 km long, needs a 300 mm telescope.
Rimae Ritter
Rimae Ritter is an IAU-approved lunar rille system near crater Ritter on Mare Tranquillitatis's southwest edge, centered at 3.50°N, 17.97°E, about 75 km across, named in 1964 from the nearby crater.
Rimae Römer
Rimae Römer (Rimae Romer) is a roughly 110 km lunar rille (graben) system running north from the crater Römer through Montes Taurus near Mare Serenitatis, IAU-approved in 1964, centered near 27°N, 35°W.
Rimae Sirsalis
Rimae Sirsalis, a system of lunar rilles near 15.7S 61.7W on the Moon's western nearside; includes the 300 km straight graben Rima Sirsalis with a strong linear magnetic anomaly and swirl.
Rimae Sosigenes
Rimae Sosigenes, a lunar rille system near crater Sosigenes in western Mare Tranquillitatis, IAU-approved 1964, 130 km across, concentric to the mare edge and host of the ~5 km Sosigenes irregular mare patch.
Rimae Sulpicius Gallus
Rimae Sulpicius Gallus is an 80-km system of linear lunar rilles on the southwest rim of Mare Serenitatis, named in 1964 from the nearby crater Sulpicius Gallus and associated with the Sulpicius Gallus pyroclastic dark mantle deposit.
Rimae Triesnecker
Rimae Triesnecker, a lunar rille system near crater Triesnecker in Sinus Medii; IAU-approved 1964, about 200 km across, a graben family and Lunar 100 object 35.
Rimae Zupus
Rimae Zupus is a 130 km system of lunar rilles at 15.46°S, 53.76°W on the Moon's western nearside, IAU-approved in 1976 and named from the nearby crater Zupus.
Rimah hizb al-rahim
Rimah hizb al-rahim (رياح حزب الرحيم) is a Tijaniyya treatise by al-Hajj Umar Tal, completed around 1845, which became the most fundamental work in West African Tijaniyya libraries.
Rimantadine
Rimantadine (Flumadine, rimantadine hydrochloride) is an adamantane antiviral that blocks the M2 ion channel of influenza A only; FDA approved 1993, abandoned after widespread S31N resistance.
Rimas
Rimas is the posthumously published collection of short lyric poems by the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, printed in Madrid in 1871, a year after his death.
Rimas Kurtinaitis
Rimas Kurtinaitis, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (born 1960, Kaunas): Olympic gold 1988 with USSR, bronze 1992 and 1996 with Lithuania; 28 points in the 1988 USA semifinal; 1989 NBA Three-Point Contest invitee; later EuroCup-winning coach and Lithuania head coach 2024–2026.
Rimbaud (Mercurian crater)
Rimbaud is a 78-km impact crater on Mercury at 63.62 degrees south latitude, IAU-approved in 1985 and named for French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891); MESSENGER imaged it in 2013, showing a Han Kan ray crossing its floor.
Rimbert
Rimbert, also Rembert, was a ninth-century archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, successor and biographer of the missionary Ansgar, and author of the Vita Anskarii, dying in Bremen in 888.
Rimbunan Hijau Group
Rimbunan Hijau Group, whose name means "Forever Green," is a Malaysian conglomerate founded in Sibu, Sarawak, in 1975 by Tiong Hiew King, spanning timber, palm oil, property, and Chinese-language media.
Rime (video game)
RiME (also Rime) is a 2017 wordless puzzle adventure by Madrid's Tequila Works: a shipwrecked boy climbs a mysterious island's tower. Metacritic 78-82; Switch port troubled; rights auctioned after the studio's 2024 insolvency.
Rime ice
Rime ice is a white, milky, opaque deposit of granular ice that forms when supercooled fog or cloud droplets freeze rapidly on striking a cold surface.
Rimegepant
Rimegepant (Nurtec ODT, Vydura) is an oral CGRP receptor antagonist (gepant) approved in 2020 for acute migraine treatment in adults and later for episodic migraine prevention, dosed 75 mg orally or every other day.
Rimexolone
Rimexolone (Vexol, Org 6216) is a 1% ophthalmic glucocorticoid suspension for postoperative ocular inflammation and anterior uveitis, with lower IOP-elevating potential than prednisolone; US product discontinued.
RIMFAX
RIMFAX (Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment) is a ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Perseverance rover, developed in Norway, that images rock layers beneath Jezero crater to depths over 30 meters.
Rimfire ammunition
Rimfire ammunition is a metallic cartridge whose priming compound sits in the hollow rim, struck by the firing pin on the rim's edge, mostly in .22 caliber.
Rimhak Ree
Rimhak Ree (이임학, 1922–2005) was a Korean-born Canadian mathematician at the University of British Columbia who discovered the Ree groups, the last infinite families of finite simple groups.
Rimi Sen (রিমি সেন)
Rimi Sen (রিমি সেন), born Subhamitra Sen in 1981, is a Kolkata-born former Hindi-film actress known for Hungama, Dhoom, Phir Hera Pheri and Golmaal, later a Bigg Boss 2015 contestant now reported in Dubai real estate.