Albategnius (moon crater)
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Albategnius recorded by Apollo 16 | ||
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position | 11.2 ° S , 3.96 ° E | |
diameter | 131 km | |
depth | 3200 m | |
Card sheet | 77 (PDF) | |
Named after | al-Battani († 929) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Albategnius is a large impact crater on the front of the moon east of the Mare Nubium . The crater is southeast of Ptolemaeus and south of Hipparchus . The crater wall is badly eroded and has terracing . The south-western edge is covered by the Klein crater . The inside is just with a central mountain .
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Arab mathematician and astronomer al-Battani .
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 9.35 ° S , 2.98 ° E | 7 km | [1] |
B. | 10.12 ° S , 3.99 ° E | 19 km | [2] |
C. | 10.35 ° S , 3.68 ° E | 6 km | [3] |
D. | 11.37 ° S , 7.11 ° E | 8 kilometers | [4] |
E. | 12.96 ° S , 6.34 ° E | 13 km | [5] |
G | 9.45 ° S , 1.82 ° E | 14 km | [6] |
H | 9.68 ° S , 5.11 ° E | 12 km | [7] |
J | 11.16 ° S , 6.15 ° E | 6 km | [8th] |
K | 9.87 ° S , 1.97 ° E | 10 km | [9] |
L. | 12.11 ° S , 6.26 ° E | 8 kilometers | [10] |
M. | 8.93 ° S , 4.11 ° E | 8 kilometers | [11] |
N | 9.92 ° S , 4.49 ° E | 9 km | [12] |
O | 13.57 ° S , 4.37 ° E | 5 km | [13] |
P | 13.03 ° S , 4.44 ° E | 4 km | [14] |
S. | 13.37 ° S , 6 ° E | 6 km | [15] |
T | 12.66 ° S , 6.03 ° E | 10 km | [16] |
Web links
- Albategnius in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Albategnius on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .