Briggs (moon crater)
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| Briggs and Lichtenberg with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 26.44 ° N , 69.16 ° W | |
| diameter | 37 km | |
| depth | 1200 m | |
| Card sheet | 38 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Henry Briggs (1561-1630) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Briggs is an impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon in the plane of Oceanus Procellarum , south of Lichtenberg crater and east of Russell . The crater has an extensive fracture system inside .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 27.09 ° N , 73.76 ° W | 24 km | [1] |
| B. | 28.15 ° N , 70.88 ° W | 25 km | [2] |
| C. | 25 ° N , 66.92 ° W | 6 km | [3] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the English mathematician Henry Briggs .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .