Bailly (moon crater)

Bailly
position	66.52 °  S , 69.53 °  W Coordinates: 66 ° 31 '12 "  S , 69 ° 31' 48"  W.
diameter	301 km
Card sheet	136 (PDF)
Named after	Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736–1793)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

With a diameter of 300 km, the lunar crater Bailly is one of the largest whale plains on the moon . It is named after the French astronomer and Paris mayor Jean-Sylvain Bailly (1736–1793), who discovered the drop phenomenon when Venus passed through .

The circular whale plane is close to the southwestern edge of the moon, so that when the light falls appropriately it appears as a very slender ellipse (about 1:10) with smaller secondary craters . If it moves even closer to the edge of the moon with extreme libration , it can sometimes hardly be made out in the maze of craters in the highlands, but with favorable libration it is only distorted in a ratio of about 1: 4.

The large crater is only about 20 ° from the South Pole, the selenographic latitude of the crater center is 66 ° 31 'south, the selenographic longitude 69 ° 32' west.

List of minor craters from Bailly

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	69.26 °  S , 59.66 °  W	43 km	[1]
B.	68.73 °  S , 63.24 °  W	62 km	[2]
C.	65.8 °  S , 70.31 °  W	19 km	[3]
D.	65.24 °  S , 72.39 °  W	27 km	[4]
E.	62.5 °  S , 65.81 °  W	14 km	[5]
F.	67.46 °  S , 69.63 °  W	17 km	[6]
G	65.66 °  S , 59.57 °  W	19 km	[7]
H	63.62 °  S , 62.71 °  W	12 km	[8th]
K	62.73 °  S , 76.71 °  W	19 km	[9]
L.	60.75 °  S , 71.09 °  W	21 km	[10]
M.	61.16 °  S , 67.58 °  W	21 km	[11]
N	60.55 °  S , 63.65 °  W	10 km	[12]
O	69.58 °  S , 56.99 °  W	19 km	[13]
P	59.57 °  S , 60.65 °  W	14 km	[14]
R.	64.64 °  S , 79.03 °  W	17 km	[15]
T	66.57 °  S , 74.04 °  W	19 km	[16]
U	71.24 °  S , 76.1 °  W	23 km	[17]
V	71.91 °  S , 81.45 °  W	32 km	[18]
Y	61.05 °  S , 65.6 °  W	14 km	[19]
Z	60.22 °  S , 65.86 °  W	13 km	[20]

Web links

• Bailly in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS