Boussingault (moon crater)

Boussingault
Boussingault ( Lunar Orbiter 4 )
position	70.21 °  S , 53.73 °  O coordinates: 70 ° 12 '36 "  S , 53 ° 43' 48"  O
diameter	128 km
depth	5640 m
Card sheet	138 (PDF)
Named after	Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802-1887)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Boussingault is an impact crater in the extreme south of the front of the moon , southwest of Helmholtz and northeast of Boguslawsky . The rim of the crater is very badly eroded. The interior of the crater is largely covered by the secondary crater Boussingault A located in it .

List of minor craters from Boussingault

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	70 °  S , 53.8 °  E	75 km	[1]
B.	65.68 °  S , 46.94 °  O	58 km	[2]
C.	65.19 °  S , 48.01 °  O	25 km	[3]
D.	63.6 °  S , 44.74 °  E	9 km	[4]
E.	67.19 °  S , 46.12 °  O	95 km	[5]
F.	68.98 °  S , 39.57 °  O	17 km	[6]
G	71.44 °  S , 52.44 °  O	5 km	[7]
K	68.84 °  S , 50.01 °  O	27 km	[8th]
N	71.38 °  S , 61.15 °  O	15 km	[9]
P	67.26 °  S , 45.49 °  O	13 km	[10]
R.	64.41 °  S , 48.58 °  O	12 km	[11]
S.	64.16 °  S , 46.83 °  E	16 km	[12]
T	63.03 °  S , 43 °  O	19 km	[13]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French chemist Jean-Baptiste Boussingault .

Web links

• Boussingault in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Boussingault on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .