Blanchinus (moon crater)
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| Blanchinus (middle right) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 25.35 ° S , 2.37 ° E | |
| diameter | 60 km | |
| depth | 1160 m | |
| Card sheet | 95 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Giovanni Bianchini (1410 – after 1469) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Blanchinus is an impact crater in the southwest of the lunar front , east of Mare Nubium , south of La Caille crater and north of Werner .
The rim of the crater is badly eroded, the bottom of the crater is flat.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| B. | 25.25 ° S , 1.51 ° E | 7 km | [1] |
| D. | 25.05 ° S , 4.11 ° E | 7 km | [2] |
| K | 24.82 ° S , 4.93 ° E | 8 kilometers | [3] |
| M. | 25.23 ° S , 2.52 ° E | 5 km | [4] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian astronomer Giovanni Bianchini .
West of Blanchinus, when the moon is around 6.7 days, shortly before reaching the first quarter of the moon , the visual effect Lunar X can be observed on the lunar terminator .
Web links
- Blanchinus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Blanchinus 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 .