Cassini (moon crater)

Cassini
Cassini with side craters ( LROC -WAC)
position	40.21 °  N , 4.59 °  O coordinates: 40 ° 12 '36 "  N , 4 ° 35' 24"  O
diameter	56 km
depth	1240 m
Card sheet	25 (PDF)
Named after	Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712) and Jacques Cassini (1677–1756)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Cassini is an impact crater on the northern front of the moon on the eastern edge of the Mare Imbrium , between Montes Alpes in the north with the promontorium Agassiz and Promontorium Deville and the mountain range of the Montes Caucasus in the south. The interior is flooded with lava and the wall has sunk, but is still there throughout.

List of Cassini minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	40.5 °  N , 4.75 °  E	17 km	[1]
B.	40.01 °  N , 3.85 °  E	9 km	[2]
C.	41.74 °  N , 7.77 °  O	14 km	[3]
E.	42.96 °  N , 7.31 °  E	9 km	[4]
F.	40.9 °  N , 7.25 °  E	7 km	[5]
G	44.72 °  N , 5.44 °  E	5 km	[6]
K	45.18 °  N , 4.06 °  E	3 km	[7]
L.	43.98 °  N , 4.38 °  E	6 km	[8th]
M.	41.36 °  N , 3.74 °  E	8 kilometers	[9]
P	44.82 °  N , 1.85 °  E	3 km	[10]
W.	42.34 °  N , 4.24 °  O	5 km	[11]
X	44.04 °  N , 8.05 °  O	4 km	[12]
Y	41.97 °  N , 2.13 °  E	4 km	[13]
Z	43.47 °  N , 2.36 °  E	5 km	[14]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French astronomers Giovanni Domenico Cassini and Jacques Cassini .

Web links

• Cassini in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Cassini 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 .