Bullialdus (moon crater)
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| position | 20.74 ° S , 22.36 ° W | |
| diameter | 61 km | |
| depth | 3510 m | |
| Card sheet | 94 (PDF) | |
| Type | TYC | |
| Named after | Ismael Boulliau (1605-1694) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Bullialdus is an impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon , in the northwest of the Mare Nubium plain , southeast of the Lubiniezky crater and north of Kies . The crater ring is surrounded by an extensive ejecta ceiling , towards the inside it has multi-level terracing and in the center there is a central mountain .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 22.23 ° S , 21.63 ° W | 25 km | [1] |
| B. | 23.46 ° S , 22.03 ° W | 21 km | [2] |
| E. | 21.75 ° S , 24.09 ° W | 4 km | [3] |
| F. | 22.52 ° S , 24.96 ° W | 6 km | [4] |
| G | 23.28 ° S , 23.75 ° W | 3 km | [5] |
| H | 22.77 ° S , 19.42 ° W | 5 km | [6] |
| K | 21.82 ° S , 25.74 ° W | 12 km | [7] |
| L. | 20.24 ° S , 24.52 ° W | 4 km | [8th] |
| R. | 20.24 ° S , 19.88 ° W | 17 km | [9] |
| Y | 18.6 ° S , 19.23 ° W | 3 km | [10] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French astronomer Ismael Boulliau .
literature
- S. Tompkins, CM Pieters, JF Mustard: Distribution and geologic history of materials excavated by the lunar crater Bullialdus. In: Lunar and planetary science XXIV. Abstracts of Papers submitted to the Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 15-19, 1993. Volume 3: N-Z. Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX 1993, p. 1433 -1434.
Web links
- Bullialdus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Bullialdus on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [11]
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .