Condorcet (moon crater)
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position | 12.11 ° N , 69.65 ° O | |
diameter | 75 km | |
depth | 2650 m | |
Card sheet | 62 (PDF) | |
Named after | Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Condorcet is a large impact crater on the eastern edge of the front of the moon , on the southeastern edge of the Mare Crisium , southwest of the Hansen crater . The crater floor is level, the crater wall has terracing .
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 11.51 ° N , 67.29 ° O | 15 km | [1] |
D. | 9.85 ° N , 68.42 ° O | 23 km | [2] |
E. | 11.37 ° N , 68.16 ° O | 9 km | [3] |
F. | 8.24 ° N , 73.05 ° O | 40 km | [4] |
G | 10.72 ° N , 67.94 ° E | 9 km | [5] |
H | 12.36 ° N , 65.02 ° O | 21 km | [6] |
J | 12.98 ° N , 65.14 ° O | 16 km | [7] |
L. | 10.13 ° N , 73.67 ° O | 13 km | [8th] |
M. | 9.06 ° N , 73.09 ° O | 12 km | [9] |
N | 8.97 ° N , 72.58 ° O | 5 km | [10] |
P | 8.74 ° N , 70.29 ° O | 48 km | [11] |
Q | 11.21 ° N , 73.38 ° O | 36 km | [12] |
R. | 11.76 ° N , 74.76 ° E | 20 km | [13] |
S. | 10.67 ° N , 75.64 ° O | 10 km | [14] |
T | 11.76 ° N , 65.81 ° O | 15 km | [15] |
TA | 12.08 ° N , 65.74 ° O | 15 km | [16] |
U | 10.07 ° N , 75.36 ° E | 11 km | [17] |
W. | 14.12 ° N , 67.03 ° O | 36 km | [18] |
X | 10.12 ° N , 69.89 ° O | 9 km | [19] |
Y | 12.89 ° N , 68.89 ° O | 14 km | [20] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French mathematician Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet .
Web links
- Condorcet in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Condorcet on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [21]
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .