Anville (moon crater)
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| Anville (bottom right) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 1.87 ° N , 49.51 ° O | |
| diameter | 10 km | |
| depth | 2220 m | |
| Card sheet | 61 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782) | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Anville is a relatively small, isolated impact crater in the northern part of Mare Fecunditatis . The closest conspicuous structures are some distance southwest of the Messier crater and, even further away in the southeast, south of the lunar equator, the elevation of the Dorsa Geikie with the Lindbergh crater behind it . In the north-west lies the Taruntius crater on the edge of the Mare .
The circular, cup-shaped crater has a sharp crater rim and shows only minor signs of wear from erosion. Smaller slides can be seen in the eastern area of the inner crater wall.
Despite the considerable distance, Anville was listed as a satellite crater by Taruntius with the designation 'Taruntius G' before it was given its own name in 1976 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
Web links
- Anville in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Anville on The-Moon Wiki
- Anville Crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .
