Cauchy (moon crater)
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| Cauchy with Rupes Cauchy, Rima Cauchy and side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 9.55 ° N , 38.63 ° O | |
| diameter | 12 km | |
| depth | 2670 m | |
| Card sheet | 61 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789-1857) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Cauchy is a relatively small, bowl-shaped impact crater on the front of the moon in the Mare Tranquillitatis plain , west of the Da Vinci crater (moon crater) and east of Sinas . The Rima Cauchy moon ridge runs north of it , and the Rupes Cauchy ridge to the south .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 12.06 ° N , 37.87 ° E | 8 kilometers | [1] |
| B. | 9.7 ° N , 35.83 ° E | 5 km | [2] |
| C. | 8.15 ° N , 38.85 ° E | 4 km | [3] |
| D. | 10.01 ° N , 40.29 ° E | 9 km | [4] |
| E. | 8.83 ° N , 38.56 ° E | 3 km | [5] |
| F. | 9.55 ° N , 36.8 ° E | 3 km | [6] |
| M. | 7.61 ° N , 35.04 ° E | 3 km | [7] |
| U | 8.79 ° N , 42.28 ° E | 5 km | [8th] |
| V | 8.95 ° N , 41.44 ° O | 4 km | [9] |
| W. | 10.55 ° N , 41.67 ° E | 4 km | [10] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy .
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .