Clavius (moon crater)
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| Clavius with the conspicuous rim craters. Incidence of light from the left (waning moon) | ||
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| position | 58.55 ° S , 14.8 ° W | |
| diameter | 231 km | |
| Card sheet | 126 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Christophorus Clavius | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Clavius is a large impact crater in the southern highlands on the Earth-facing side of the moon . It was named after the German- Italian mathematician and Jesuit astronomer Christophorus Clavius (1537 / 1538–1612).
The crater measures about 225 km in diameter. Inside there are a large number of craters of various sizes, the smaller of which are suitable for testing the resolving power of amateur telescopes. The semicircular arrangement, which begins with the crater Rutherfurd (48 × 54 km) on the southern rim of Clavius and continues from there with the increasingly smaller craters Clavius D, C, N, J and JA, is striking. In the northeast, Clavius' crater wall is interrupted by the 52 km large crater Porter .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| C. | 57.71 ° S , 14.33 ° W | 22 km | [1] |
| D. | 58.79 ° S , 12.54 ° W | 28 km | [2] |
| E. | 51.49 ° S , 12.83 ° W | 16 km | [3] |
| F. | 55.44 ° S , 22.2 ° W | 7 km | [4] |
| G | 52.03 ° S , 14.13 ° W | 17 km | [5] |
| H | 51.84 ° S , 15.92 ° W | 33 km | [6] |
| J | 58.15 ° S , 18.31 ° W | 12 km | [7] |
| K | 60.44 ° S , 20 ° W | 18 km | [8th] |
| L. | 58.78 ° S , 21.44 ° W | 22 km | [9] |
| M. | 54.76 ° S , 11.85 ° W | 45 km | [10] |
| N | 57.55 ° S , 16.64 ° W | 13 km | [11] |
| O | 56.97 ° S , 16.8 ° W | 4 km | [12] |
| P | 56.95 ° S , 7.61 ° W | 11 km | [13] |
| R. | 53.24 ° S , 15.56 ° W | 8 kilometers | [14] |
| T | 60.68 ° S , 15.44 ° W | 8 kilometers | [15] |
| W. | 55.98 ° S , 16.37 ° W | 5 km | [16] |
| X | 60.23 ° S , 18 ° W | 7 km | [17] |
| Y | 58.02 ° S , 16.38 ° W | 7 km | [18] |
Clavius in a novel and film
In the science fiction novel and film 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke , the lunar station of the same name is located in the Clavius crater. From there the expedition started, which excavated the monolith in the crater Tycho .
Web links
- Clavius in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Clavius crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
- Large picture: Clavius and surroundings (English)
- SkyTrip: Clavius
- Estimation of the size of the lunar crater Clavius (PDF; 301 kB)
- Spektrum.de : Collection of amateur recordings
