Cardanus (moon crater)
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| Cardanus and Krafft ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 13.27 ° N , 72.46 ° W | |
| diameter | 50 km | |
| depth | 3440 m | |
| Card sheet | 55 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Gerolamo Cardano (1501–1576) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Cardanus is an impact crater on the westernmost edge of the front of the moon , so if at all it is only visible from Earth in a strongly distorted manner. It is located south of the Krafft crater in the plain of Oceanus Procellarum . The Catena Krafft crater chain runs between Cardanus and Krafft . Cardanus has a relatively sharp, somewhat irregular crater rim with a multi-terraced inner wall.
The moon groove Rima Cardanus runs south of Cardanus in an east-west direction .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| B. | 11.42 ° N , 73.94 ° W | 13 km | [1] |
| C. | 11.16 ° N , 76.26 ° W | 14 km | [2] |
| E. | 12.78 ° N , 70.77 ° W | 6 km | [3] |
| G | 11.49 ° N , 74.99 ° W | 8 kilometers | [4] |
| K | 14.11 ° N , 77.01 ° W | 8 kilometers | [5] |
| M. | 14.87 ° N , 77.27 ° W | 9 km | [6] |
| R. | 12.25 ° N , 73.47 ° W | 21 km | [7] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian mathematician Gerolamo Cardano .
Web links
- Cardanus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Cardanus 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 .