Birmingham (moon crater)
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| Birmingham with side craters (north above; LROC- WAC) | ||
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| position | 65.12 ° N , 10.7 ° W | |
| diameter | 90 km | |
| depth | 830 m | |
| Card sheet | 3 (PDF) | |
| Named after | John Birmingham (1816-1884) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Birmingham is an impact crater on the Moon to the north of the Moon's front . It is located on the northern edge of the Mare Frigoris , west of Timaeus and southwest of Epigenes . The crater walls of the wide plain are very badly eroded and completely leveled in several places.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| Z | 60.97 ° N , 145.87 ° W | 29 km | [1] |
| B. | 63.5 ° N , 11.27 ° W | 7 km | [2] |
| G | 64.57 ° N , 10.26 ° W | 5 km | [3] |
| H | 64.45 ° N , 10.67 ° W | 7 km | [4] |
| K | 65.03 ° N , 13.19 ° W | 6 km | [5] |
The crater was named by the IAU in 1935 after the Irish astronomer John Birmingham .
literature
- Paul Mohr: John Birmingham on "A Crater in the Moon" . In: The Irish Astronomical Journal. Vol. 24, No. 1, 1997, ISSN 0021-1052 , pp. 59-72, bibcode : 1997IrAJ ... 24 ... 59M .
- Paul Mohr: Tuam, Rome and Berlin - Letters from John Birmingham. In: The Irish Astronomical Journal. Vol. 22, No. 2, 1995, pp. 203-212, bibcode : 1995IrAJ ... 22..203M .
Web links
- Birmingham in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Birmingham on The-moon Wiki
