Clairaut (moon crater)
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| Clairaut with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 47.88 ° S , 13.88 ° E | |
| diameter | 77 km | |
| depth | 2160 m | |
| Card sheet | 113 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Alexis-Claude Clairaut (1713-1765) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Clairaut is an impact crater to the south of the lunar front , southwest of Barocius crater and west of Breislek . The crater is heavily eroded and the edge of the crater in the southern entirely overlaid by the addition craters Clairaut A and Clairaut B .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 49.08 ° S , 14.74 ° E | 34 km | [1] |
| B. | 48.38 ° S , 12.6 ° E | 41 km | [2] |
| C. | 48.19 ° S , 13.33 ° E | 16 km | [3] |
| D. | 47.44 ° S , 14.11 ° E | 13 km | [4] |
| E. | 46.52 ° S , 12.55 ° E | 29 km | [5] |
| F. | 45.79 ° S , 14.38 ° E | 31 km | [6] |
| G | 47.29 ° S , 11.6 ° E | 6 km | [7] |
| H | 49.15 ° S , 12.06 ° E | 9 km | [8th] |
| J | 45.83 ° S , 12.71 ° E | 13 km | [9] |
| K | 49.8 ° S , 13.86 ° E | 12 km | [10] |
| M. | 46.28 ° S , 13.72 ° E | 6 km | [11] |
| P | 49.11 ° S , 11.67 ° E | 8 kilometers | [12] |
| R. | 48.07 ° S , 15.78 ° E | 14 km | [13] |
| S. | 47.55 ° S , 16.33 ° O | 22 km | [14] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French mathematician Alexis-Claude Clairaut .
Web links
- Clairaut in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Clairaut 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 .