Babbage (moon crater)
Babbage | ||
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Babbage crater, Pythagoras above left ( Lunar Orbiter 4 ) | ||
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position | 59.56 ° N , 57.38 ° W | |
diameter | 147 km | |
depth | 1390 m | |
Card sheet | 10 (PDF) | |
Named after | Charles Babbage (1791-1871). | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Babbage is an impact crater on the northwestern edge of the lunar front . In the north-west it touches the wall of the crater Pythagoras and in the south-west Oenopides . The edge of Babbage is badly eroded where it is not completely leveled. In the southwest it is overlaid by the secondary crater Babbage D and in the southeast by South .
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 59.14 ° N , 55.64 ° W | 32 km | [1] |
B. | 57.05 ° N , 59.6 ° W | 7 km | [2] |
C. | 59.19 ° N , 57.46 ° W | 14 km | [3] |
D. | 58.65 ° N , 61.17 ° W | 71 km | [4] |
E. | 58.47 ° N , 61.57 ° W | 7 km | [5] |
U | 60.94 ° N , 51.34 ° W | 5 km | [6] |
X | 60.28 ° N , 50.28 ° W | 6 km | [7] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the British mathematician Charles Babbage . The name was first given by the English amateur astronomer William Radcliffe Birt in 1862.
Web links
- Babbage in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Babbage 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 .
- ^ WR Birt: On a Group of Lunar Craters imperfectly represented in Lunar Maps. In: Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1862 Meeting. ISSN 0262-690X , pp. 9-12.