Faraday (moon crater)
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| Faraday (left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 42.49 ° S , 8.72 ° E | |
| diameter | 69 km | |
| depth | 4090 m | |
| Card sheet | 112 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Michael Faraday (1791-1867) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Faraday is an impact crater in the south of the front of the moon , southeast of Mare Nubium , west of Maurolycus crater and southeast of Stöfler , the interior of which it partially covers. The crater is eroded and the crater rim is overlapped by the side craters Faraday A and Faraday C .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 41.55 ° S , 9.65 ° E | 20 km | [1] |
| C. | 43.33 ° S , 7.99 ° E | 28 km | [2] |
| D. | 43.78 ° S , 9.56 ° O | 13 km | [3] |
| G | 45.95 ° S , 10.02 ° E | 30 km | [4] |
| H | 45.13 ° S , 10.22 ° E | 12 km | [5] |
| K | 42.7 ° S , 10.27 ° E | 7 km | [6] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the British physicist and chemist Michael Faraday .
Web links
- Faraday in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Faraday 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 .