Fabbroni (moon crater)
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| position | 18.65 ° N , 29.27 ° E | |
| diameter | 11 km | |
| depth | 2150 m | |
| Card sheet | 42 (PDF) | |
| Type | BIO | |
| Named after | Giovanni Fabbroni (1752-1822) | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Fabbroni is an impact crater on the northeastern front of the moon on the edge of Mare Serenitatis , northeast of Dawes crater and northwest of Vitruvius . The crater is bowl-shaped with a flat crater floor, the rim shows hardly any erosion.
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1976 after the Italian chemist Giovanni Fabbroni .
Web links
- Fabbroni in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Fabbroni 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 .