Feuillée (moon crater)
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| position | 27.37 ° N , 9.47 ° W | |
| diameter | 9 km | |
| Card sheet | 41 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Louis Feuillée (1660-1732) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Feuillée is a small impact crater in the eastern part of the Mare Imbrium . It is located less than 5 km northwest of the Beer crater and forms a twin pair of almost identical craters with it. To the west is the small but striking crater Timocharis .
Similar to beer , Feuillée is circular and bowl-shaped. The relatively small crater floor lies in the center of the sloping inner walls of the crater. The sharp-edged crater shows no particular traces of erosion and lacks any other conspicuous features. On the other hand, it lies on a ridge of the sea in the surface of the mare and can best be observed in light inclined at an angle, when the terminator is close to the crater.
Web links
- Feuillée in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Feuillée crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
