Casatus (moon crater)
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position | 72.7 ° S , 30.62 ° W | |
diameter | 103 km | |
depth | 5120 m | |
Card sheet | 137 (PDF) | |
Named after | Paolo Casati (1617–1707) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Casatus is an impact crater in the extreme south of the front of the moon , immediately south of the Klaproth crater , the edge of which it partially covers. The rim of the crater is heavily eroded, the interior is mostly flat except for the secondary crater C.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 72.66 ° S , 37.89 ° W | 65 km | [1] |
C. | 72.24 ° S , 30.44 ° W | 17 km | [2] |
D. | 76.86 ° S , 43.36 ° W | 38 km | [3] |
E. | 77.25 ° S , 53.97 ° W | 44 km | [4] |
H | 72.11 ° S , 21.65 ° W | 37 km | [5] |
J | 74.31 ° S , 33.07 ° W | 21 km | [6] |
K | 74.83 ° S , 40.73 ° W | 36 km | [7] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian Jesuit, mathematician and astronomer Paolo Casati .
Web links
- Casatus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Casatus 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 .