Cichus (moon crater)

Cichus

position

33.27 ° S , 21.24 ° W Coordinates: 33 ° 16 ′ 12 " S , 21 ° 14 ′ 24" W

diameter

39 km

depth

2760 m

Card sheet

111 (PDF)

Named after

Cecco d'Ascoli (1269-1327)

Named since

1935

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

39.18

Cichus is an impact crater in the southwest of the lunar front , on the eastern edge of the Palus Epidemiarum , east of the Capuanus crater and southwest of Weiss . The moderately eroded crater has concentric structures inside.

List of minor craters from Cichus
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	34.83 ° S , 21.58 ° WMoon -34.83 -21.58	20 km	[1]
B.	33.21 ° S , 19.45 ° WMoon -33.21 -19.45	14 km	[2]
C.	33.59 ° S , 21.95 ° WMoon -33.59 -21.95	10 km	[3]
F.	35.69 ° S , 22.59 ° WMoon -35.69 -22.59	8 kilometers	[4]
G	35.5 ° S , 23.65 ° WMoon -35.5 -23.65	22 km	[5]
H	32.82 ° S , 22.58 ° WMoon -32.82 -22.58	7 km	[6]
J	32.01 ° S , 21.43 ° WMoon -32.01 -21.43	14 km	[7]
K	36.64 ° S , 20.14 ° WMoon -36.64 -20.14	6 km	[8th]
N	30.6 ° S , 21.83 ° WMoon -30.6 -21.83	7 km	[9]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian poet, doctor and astronomer Cecco d'Ascoli .

Web links

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