Chladni (moon crater)
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| position | 3.97 ° N , 1.1 ° E | |
| diameter | 13 km | |
| depth | 2630 m | |
| Card sheet | 59 (PDF) | |
| Type | BIO | |
| Named after | Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756–1827) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Chladni is a small impact crater on the front of the moon on the northern edge of the Sinus Medii , west of the Triesnecker crater and south of Ukert . The crater is bowl-shaped with a flat bottom and little eroded.
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German physicist Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni .
Web links
- Chladni in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Chladni 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 .