Encke (moon crater)
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| position | 4.55 ° N , 36.68 ° W | |
| diameter | 28 km | |
| depth | 750 m | |
| Card sheet | 57 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Johann Franz Encke (1791–1865) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Encke is an impact crater on the western front of the moon in the plane of Oceanus Procellarum , southeast of the Kepler crater and northwest of Kunwosky . The crater rim is irregular and little eroded, the inside of the crater is flat and has a system of fracture grooves .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| B. | 2.33 ° N , 36.81 ° W | 11 km | [1] |
| C. | 0.65 ° N , 36.46 ° W | 9 km | [2] |
| E. | 0.34 ° N , 40.22 ° W | 9 km | [3] |
| G | 4.77 ° N , 38.81 ° W | 7 km | [4] |
| H | 3.99 ° N , 37.41 ° W | 4 km | [5] |
| J | 5.22 ° N , 39.6 ° W | 5 km | [6] |
| K | 1.36 ° N , 37.25 ° W | 4 km | [7] |
| M. | 4.48 ° N , 35.13 ° W | 3 km | [8th] |
| N | 4.57 ° N , 37.17 ° W | 4 km | [9] |
| T | 3.23 ° N , 37.88 ° W | 95 km | [10] |
| X | 0.93 ° N , 40.34 ° W | 3 km | [11] |
| Y | 5.85 ° N , 36.47 ° W | 3 km | [12] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Johann Franz Encke .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .