Casatus (moon crater)

Casatus
position	72.7 °  S , 30.62 °  W Coordinates: 72 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  S , 30 ° 37 ′ 12 ″  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.

List of Casatus minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
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

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .