Book (moon crater)

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Book and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)
position	38.9 °  S , 17.68 °  E Coordinates: 38 ° 54 '0 "  S , 17 ° 40' 48"  E
diameter	51 km
depth	1440 m
Card sheet	113 (PDF)
Named after	Christian Leopold von Buch
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Buch is an old crater in the southern highlands of the moon. It lies northeast of the Maurolycus crater and is comparable in size to the Büsching crater in the northeast . The rim of the crater is moderately eroded, the interior flat.

List of minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	41.06 °  S , 17.58 °  E	18 km	[1]
B.	37.9 °  S , 16.93 °  E	6 km	[2]
C.	37.44 °  S , 17.18 °  O	27 km	[3]
D.	39.68 °  S , 16.45 °  E	7 km	[4]
E.	38.99 °  S , 16.45 °  E	8 kilometers	[5]

Web links

• Book in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Book on The-Moon Wiki
• Krater book in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"

Individual evidence

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