Boussingault (moon crater)
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Boussingault ( Lunar Orbiter 4 ) | ||
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position | 70.21 ° S , 53.73 ° 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 .
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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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
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .