Cysatus (moon crater)

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Cysatus
Cysatus LO-IV-118H LTVT.JPG
Cysatus ( Lunar Orbiter 4 )
Cysatus (Moon South Pole Region)
Cysatus
position 66.21 °  S , 6.4 °  W Coordinates: 66 ° 12 ′ 36 "  S , 6 ° 24 ′ 0"  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

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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.

List of minor craters of Cysatus
Letter position diameter link
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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .