Cusanus (moon crater)

Cusanus

Cusanus and Petermann with side craters (north above; LROC -WAC)

position

71.83 ° N , 69.17 ° O coordinates: 71 ° 49 '48 " N , 69 ° 10' 12" O

diameter

61 km

depth

4610 m

Card sheet

5 (PDF)

Named after

Nikolaus von Kues (1401–1464)

Named since

1935

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

60.87

Cusanus is an impact crater on the northeastern edge of the lunar front . It is located immediately south of the Petermann crater . The terraced ramparts are somewhat eroded, and two smaller craters have left a notch in the rampart on the eastern edge. The inside of the crater is without a central mountain .

List of minor craters of Cusanus
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	70.6 ° N , 63.85 ° EMoon 70.6 63.85	17 km	[1]
B.	70.15 ° N , 64.94 ° EMoon 70.15 64.94	21 km	[2]
C.	70.49 ° N , 61.23 ° OMoon 70.49 61.23	23 km	[3]
E.	71.73 ° N , 73.04 ° OMoon 71.73 April 73	10 km	[4]
F.	70.59 ° N , 73.57 ° OMoon 70.59 73.57	11 km	[5]
G	69.95 ° N , 76.97 ° OMoon 69.95 76.97	11 km	[6]
H	69.41 ° N , 59.47 ° OMoon 69.41 59.47	8 kilometers	[7]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German mathematician and philosopher Nikolaus von Kues . The name was introduced by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt .

Web links

Cusanus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Cusanus on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

^ Ewen A. Whitaker: Mapping and Naming the Moon. A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2003, ISBN 0-521-54414-9 , p. 224.

[1] Ewen A. Whitaker: Mapping and Naming the Moon. A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2003, ISBN 0-521-54414-9 , p. 224.