Büsching (moon crater)

Büsching

Büsching and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)

position

38.04 ° S , 19.91 ° E Coordinates: 38 ° 2 ′ 24 " S , 19 ° 54 ′ 36" E

diameter

53 km

depth

1810 m

Card sheet

113 (PDF)

Named after

Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724–1793)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

53.49

Büsching is an impact crater in the south of the front of the moon , northeast of the crater Maurolycus and from the book of about the same size . The crater is heavily eroded, the interior largely flat.

List of the secondary craters of Büsching
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	38.38 ° S , 20.4 ° OMoon -38.38 20.4	5 km	[1]
B.	39.03 ° S , 22.74 ° EMoon -39.03 22.74	18 km	[2]
C.	37.32 ° S , 19.51 ° OMoon -37.32 19.51	7 km	[3]
D.	38.74 ° S , 21.8 ° EMoon -38.74 21.8	31 km	[4]
E.	36.72 ° S , 18.36 ° OMoon -36.72 18.36	15 km	[5]
F.	39.11 ° S , 20.93 ° EMoon -39.11 20.93	6 km	[6]
G	39.59 ° S , 21.51 ° OMoon -39.59 21.51	7 km	[7]
H	37.47 ° S , 21.03 ° EMoon -37.47 03/21	5 km	[8th]
J	39.55 ° S , 22.18 ° OMoon -39.55 22.18	7 km	[9]
K	38.05 ° S , 18.63 ° OMoon -38.05 18.63	5 km	[10]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German geographer Anton Friedrich Büsching .

Web links

Büsching in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Büsching 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 .

[1] John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .