Chacornac (moon crater)

Chacornac

Chacornac with Posidonius ( LROC -WAC)

position

29.88 ° N , 31.67 ° O coordinates: 29 ° 52 '48 " N , 31 ° 40' 12" O

diameter

50 km

depth

1450 m

Card sheet

43 (PDF)

Named after

Jean Chacornac (1823–1873)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Chacornac is an impact crater on the northeastern front of the moon in the mountains of the Montes Taurus on the edge of the Mare Serenitatis , touching the edge of the larger crater Posidonius in the northwest . The crater rim is heavily eroded. Inside the crater there is a system of lunar grooves , the Rimae Chacornac .

List of minor craters from Chacornac
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	29.81 ° N , 31.57 ° OMoon 29.81 31.57	5 km	[1]
B.	28.94 ° N , 31.9 ° OMoon 28.94 31.9	5 km	[2]
C.	30.76 ° N , 32.55 ° OMoon 30.76 32.55	5 km	[3]
D.	30.73 ° N , 33.63 ° OMoon 30.73 33.63	25 km	[4]
E.	29.45 ° N , 33.82 ° OMoon 29.45 33.82	20 km	[5]
F.	29.13 ° N , 33.07 ° OMoon 29.13 33.07	22 km	[6]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French astronomer Jean Chacornac .

Web links

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

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