Biot (moon crater)
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| Biot (bottom right) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 22.72 ° S , 51.04 ° E | |
| diameter | 13 km | |
| depth | 900 m | |
| Card sheet | 98 (PDF) | |
| Type | BIO | |
| Named after | Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774–1862) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
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Biot (below) with side crater Biot C ( Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter )
Biot is a small bowl-shaped impact crater in the southern foothills of the Mare Fecunditatis . It is north of the Vallis Snellius and northwest of the Wrottesley crater .
The edge of Biot is almost circular and the sharp-edged crater rim shows only minor traces of erosion . The inner crater walls drop evenly onto a relatively small crater floor. They have a higher albedo than the surrounding mare, which gives them a light appearance.
In the classification of non-eroded and overmolded craters formulated and applied by Charles A. Wood and Leif Andersson in 1978, Biot is the type specimen for the shape of bowl-shaped craters with a clearly separated bottom, designated BIO.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 22.24 ° S , 48.79 ° O | 15 km | [1] |
| B. | 20.47 ° S , 49.55 ° E | 27 km | [2] |
| C. | 22.11 ° S , 51.1 ° E | 7 km | [3] |
| D. | 24.34 ° S , 50.32 ° E | 9 km | [4] |
| E. | 24.77 ° S , 50.83 ° E | 8 kilometers | [5] |
| T | 21.48 ° S , 49.77 ° E | 5 km | [6] |
Web links
- Biot in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Biot on The-Moon Wiki
- Biot crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .
- ^ Charles A. Wood, Leif Andersson: New morphometric data for fresh lunar craters. In: Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 9, 1978, ISSN 0270-9511 , pp. 3669-3689.