De Morgan (moon crater)

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De Morgan
De Morgan (moon equatorial region)
De Morgan
position 3.3 °  N , 14.87 °  O coordinates: 3 ° 18 '0 "  N , 14 ° 52' 12"  O
diameter 10 km
depth 1870 m
Card sheet 60 (PDF)
Named after Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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De Morgan is a small impact crater in the middle of the moon , halfway between D'Arrest craters to the south and Cayley to the north. The round, bowl-shaped crater has a small floor area in the center of the conical, sloping crater walls.

Its namesake is the British mathematician De Morgan , who was honored by the naming in 1935.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Edward Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 , p. 273