Erlanger (moon crater)
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| Erlanger and south of it Fibiger | ||
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| position | 86.98 ° N , 28.39 ° E | |
| diameter | 10 km | |
| Card sheet | 1 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Joseph Erlanger (1874–1965) | |
| Named since | January 22, 2009 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Erlanger is a small impact crater on the moon near the lunar north pole . Due to the location and shape of the crater, the floor of Erlanger is one of the places where it is believed possible that ice from cometary impacts can occur on the moon. For this reason, the crater was examined on ice with a combination of the mini-RF instruments on board the two probes Chandrayaan-1 and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter .
The crater was named in 2009 by the IAU after Joseph Erlanger (1874-1965), an American physiologist .
Web links
- Erlanger in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Erlanger on The-moon Wiki
- Lunar boreal halo - Article by Phil Plait on his blog Bad Astronomy
Individual evidence
Erlanger at sunrise ( Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter )