Cysatus (moon crater)
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| Cysatus ( Lunar Orbiter 4 ) | ||
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| position | 66.21 ° S , 6.4 ° W | |
| diameter | 48 km | |
| depth | 4250 m | |
| Card sheet | 137 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Johann Baptist Cysat (1586–1657) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Cysatus is an impact crater in the extreme south of the lunar front , north of Moretus crater and west of Curtius . The crater rim is moderately eroded, the inside uneven.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 64.32 ° S , 1.01 ° W | 13 km | [1] |
| B. | 65.7 ° S , 1.98 ° W | 8 kilometers | [2] |
| C. | 63.86 ° S , 0.32 ° O | 27 km | [3] |
| D. | 65.17 ° S , 6.27 ° W | 5 km | [4] |
| E. | 66.57 ° S , 1.32 ° W | 49 km | [5] |
| F. | 64.03 ° S , 3.83 ° W | 4 km | [6] |
| G | 65.63 ° S , 0.59 ° W | 6 km | [7] |
| H | 66.84 ° S , 0.17 ° W | 9 km | [8th] |
| J | 63.15 ° S , 0.52 ° E | 10 km | [9] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Swiss mathematician and astronomer Johann Baptist Cysat .
Web links
- Cysatus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Cysatus 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 .