Davy (moon crater)
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| Davy captured by Lunar Orbiter 4 | ||
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| position | 11.85 ° S , 8.18 ° W | |
| diameter | 34 km | |
| depth | 820 m | |
| Card sheet | 77 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Humphry Davy (1778-1829) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Davy is an impact crater on the front of the moon on the northeastern edge of Mare Nubium , southwest of Ptolemaeus crater and northwest of Alphonsus . The somewhat irregularly shaped crater has concentric structures inside. In the northeast it overlies the secondary crater Davy Y , inside of which there is the Catena Davy crater chain , which runs from the center of the secondary crater in a slight arc in a northeastern direction.
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the British chemist Humphry Davy .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 12.24 ° S , 7.81 ° W | 13 km | [1] |
| B. | 10.91 ° S , 8.99 ° W | 7 km | [2] |
| C. | 11.23 ° S , 7.06 ° W | 3 km | [3] |
| G | 10.38 ° S , 5.15 ° W | 15 km | [4] |
| K | 10.22 ° S , 9.53 ° W | 3 km | [5] |
| U | 12.97 ° S , 7.23 ° W | 3 km | [6] |
| Y | 11 ° S , 7.26 ° W | 70 km | [7] |
Web links
Spektrum.de: Amateur recordings [8]
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .