De La Rue (moon crater)
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| De La Rue with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 59.19 ° N , 52.93 ° O | |
| diameter | 135 km | |
| Card sheet | 14 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Warren de la Rue (1815-1889) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
De La Rue is a decayed whale plain, 136 km in diameter, on the northeastern edge of the moon's front . It is located north of the large Endymion crater and immediately south of the smaller but more noticeable Thales and Strabo craters . The wall is almost completely leveled and partially covered by newer craters.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| D. | 56.81 ° N , 46.34 ° O | 18 km | [1] |
| E. | 56.84 ° N , 49.88 ° E | 32 km | [2] |
| J | 58.99 ° N , 52.82 ° O | 14 km | [3] |
| P | 60.44 ° N , 61.5 ° O | 9 km | [4] |
| Q | 61.61 ° N , 60.81 ° O | 10 km | [5] |
| R. | 62.09 ° N , 60.83 ° O | 10 km | [6] |
| S. | 62.94 ° N , 62.44 ° O | 13 km | [7] |
| W. | 55.75 ° N , 47.08 ° E | 17 km | [8th] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the British astronomer Warren de la Rue . He appears on the cards of Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt under the name Epicurius .