Campanus (moon crater)
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| position | 28.05 ° S , 27.94 ° W | |
| diameter | 46 km | |
| depth | 2000 m | |
| Card sheet | 94 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Campanus of Novara (around 1220–1296) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Campanus is an impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon between Mare Nubium and Palus Epidemiarum , southeast of the crater Hippalus and immediately northwest of Mercator . The somewhat irregularly shaped crater rim is little eroded and is terraced towards the largely flat interior.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 26.01 ° S , 28.73 ° W | 11 km | [1] |
| B. | 29.32 ° S , 29.29 ° W | 6 km | [2] |
| G | 28.67 ° S , 31.41 ° W | 10 km | [3] |
| K | 26.72 ° S , 28.49 ° W | 5 km | [4] |
| X | 27.83 ° S , 27.48 ° W | 3 km | [5] |
| Y | 27.87 ° S , 28.29 ° W | 4 km | [6] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian mathematician and astronomer Campanus von Novara .
Web links
- Campanus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Campanus 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 .