C. Mayer
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| C. Mayer (Photo by Lunar Orbiter 4 ) | ||
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| position | 63.23 ° N , 17.21 ° E | |
| diameter | 38 km | |
| depth | 2360 m | |
| Card sheet | 13 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Christian Mayer (1719–1783) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
C. Mayer is an impact crater on the front of the moon . It is located west of the Kane crater on the northern edge of Mare Frigoris . The wall is hardly eroded and the interior has a central mountain . In the southeast it overlies the heavily eroded secondary crater C. Mayer D (formerly also known as Gasser ), which opens to the Mare Frigoris in the southeast.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| B. | 60.23 ° N , 15.52 ° E | 33 km | [1] |
| D. | 62.2 ° N , 18.51 ° E | 65 km | [2] |
| E. | 61.14 ° N , 16 ° E | 11 km | [3] |
| F. | 62.07 ° N , 19.58 ° O | 7 km | [4] |
| H | 64.22 ° N , 14.7 ° E | 43 km | [5] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after German physicist and astronomer Christian Mayer .
Web links
- C. Mayer in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- C. Mayer 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 .