Cuvier (moon crater)

Cuvier

Cuvier (bottom right) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)

position

50.31 ° S , 9.66 ° E Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 36 " S , 9 ° 39 ′ 36" E

diameter

77 km

depth

3020 m

Card sheet

126 (PDF)

Named after

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)

Named since

1935

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

77.3

Cuvier is an impact crater south of the lunar front , east of Maginus crater and southeast of Licetus . The rim of the crater is heavily eroded, the interior largely flat.

List of Cuvier's minor craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	52.51 ° S , 11.9 ° OMoon -52.51 11.09	18 km	[1]
B.	51.72 ° S , 13.76 ° EMoon -51.72 13.76	16 km	[2]
C.	50.02 ° S , 11.71 ° EMoon -50.02 11.71	9 km	[3]
D.	51.43 ° S , 7.69 ° OMoon -51.43 7.69	16 km	[4]
E.	52.42 ° S , 12.83 ° EMoon -52.42 12.83	19 km	[5]
F.	52.3 ° S , 11.11 ° EMoon -52.3 11.11	15 km	[6]
G	50.85 ° S , 7.4 ° EMoon -50.85 7.4	8 kilometers	[7]
H	48.71 ° S , 8.38 ° EMoon -48.71 8.38	10 km	[8th]
J	49.28 ° S , 8.66 ° EMoon -49.28 8.66	5 km	[9]
K	52.28 ° S , 9.94 ° EMoon -52.28 9.94	7 km	[10]
L.	48.96 ° S , 9.71 ° EMoon -48.96 9.71	13 km	[11]
M.	53.42 ° S , 10.77 ° EMoon -53.42 10.77	6 km	[12]
N	53.54 ° S , 12.01 ° OMoon -53.54 01/12	4 km	[13]
O	51.77 ° S , 12 ° EMoon -51.77 12	11 km	[14]
P	50.16 ° S , 12.6 ° EMoon -50.16 12.6	9 km	[15]
Q	51.65 ° S , 10.49 ° EMoon -51.65 10.49	13 km	[16]
R.	51.14 ° S , 13.1 ° EMoon -51.14 13.1	6 km	[17]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French naturalist Georges Cuvier .

Web links

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