Drebbel (moon crater)
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| Drebbel (top right) and Schickard ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 40.94 ° S , 49.11 ° W | |
| diameter | 30 km | |
| depth | 3270 m | |
| Card sheet | 110 (PDF) | |
| Type | TRI | |
| Named after | Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel (1572–1633) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Drebbel is an impact crater on the western edge of the front of the moon , southwest of the Mare Humorum , northeast of the great Schickard whale plain . The rim of the crater is irregularly shaped and only slightly eroded with traces of extensive landslides. The interior is largely flat.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 39 ° S , 51.05 ° W | 7 km | [1] |
| B. | 37.78 ° S , 47.52 ° W | 17 km | [2] |
| C. | 40.46 ° S , 43.07 ° W | 28 km | [3] |
| D. | 37.95 ° S , 49.36 ° W | 11 km | [4] |
| E. | 38.21 ° S , 51.48 ° W | 60 km | [5] |
| F. | 42.79 ° S , 44.77 ° W | 15 km | [6] |
| G | 43.86 ° S , 45.38 ° W | 17 km | [7] |
| H | 41.74 ° S , 45.48 ° W | 10 km | [8th] |
| J | 40.61 ° S , 52.39 ° W | 13 km | [9] |
| K | 40.03 ° S , 49.65 ° W | 33 km | [10] |
| L. | 40.3 ° S , 50.93 ° W | 9 km | [11] |
| M. | 41.3 ° S , 41.57 ° W | 7 km | [12] |
| N | 41.34 ° S , 52.53 ° W | 9 km | [13] |
| P | 39.73 ° S , 51.92 ° W | 5 km | [14] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Dutch physicist and inventor Cornelis Jacobszoon Drebbel .
Web links
- Drebbel in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Drebbel 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 .