Blagg (moon crater)
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| Blagg (bottom left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 1.2 ° N , 1.44 ° E | |
| diameter | 5 km | |
| depth | 920 m | |
| Card sheet | 59 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Mary Adela Blagg (1858-1944). | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Blagg is a small impact crater in the Sinus Medii , an almost crater-free basalt plain in the middle of the visible half of the moon. It is a round, bowl-shaped crater with no significant traces of erosion. To the east is the heavily weathered Rhaeticus crater and to the northeast the deep Triesnecker crater .
It is named after the English astronomer Mary Adela Blagg .
Individual evidence
- ^ John Edward Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 , p. 271
Web links
- Blagg in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Blagg on The-Moon Wiki
- Blagg crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
