Babbage (moon crater)

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Babbage
Babbage LO-IV-176H.JPG
Babbage crater, Pythagoras above left ( Lunar Orbiter 4 )
Babbage (Moon North Pole Region)
Babbage
position 59.56 °  N , 57.38 °  W Coordinates: 59 ° 33 '36 "  N , 57 ° 22' 48"  W.
diameter 147 km
depth 1390 m
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Named after Charles Babbage (1791-1871).
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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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 .

List of minor craters
Letter position diameter link
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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .
  2. ^ 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.