De Morgan (moon crater)
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position | 3.3 ° N , 14.87 ° 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 |
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.
Web links
- De Morgan in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- De Morgan crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
Individual evidence
- ^ John Edward Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 , p. 273