Balboa (moon crater)

Balboa

Balboa and Dalton ( LROC -WAC)

position

19.21 ° N , 83.24 ° W Coordinates: 19 ° 12 '36 " N , 83 ° 14' 24" W.

diameter

69 km

depth

2140 m

Card sheet

37 (PDF)

Named after

Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475-1519)

Named since

1964

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

69.19

Balboa is an impact crater on the northwestern edge of the moon's front . It lies on the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum , north of the neighboring Dalton crater and southwest of the Struve whale plain . The crater rim is heavily eroded. The inside has break lines.

List of minor craters of Balboa
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	17.42 ° N , 82.02 ° WMoon 17.42 -82.02	47 km	[1]
B.	20.52 ° N , 82.52 ° WMoon 20.52 -82.52	54 km	[2]
C.	19.55 ° N , 79.16 ° WMoon 19.55 -79.16	26 km	[3]
D.	18.25 ° N , 79.74 ° WMoon 18.25 -79.74	40 km	[4]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1964 after the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa .

Web links

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