Deseilligny (moon crater)
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| position | 21.13 ° N , 20.59 ° E | |
| diameter | 6 km | |
| depth | 1250 m | |
| Card sheet | 42 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | Jules Alfred Pierrot Deseilligny (1868–1918) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Deseilligny is a small impact crater on the northeastern front of the moon in the Mare Serenitatis plain , east of Bessel crater and northwest of Dawes .
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French selenographer Jules Alfred Pierrot Deseilligny .
Web links
- Deseilligny in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Deseilligny on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .