Fontana (moon crater)
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position | 16.07 ° S , 56.76 ° W | |
diameter | 31 km | |
depth | 1130 m | |
Card sheet | 92 (PDF) | |
Named after | Francesco Fontana (~ 1580– ~ 1656) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Fontana is an impact crater on the western edge of the moon front , west of Oceanus Procellarum , southeast of Sirsalis crater and southwest of Billy . The rim of the relatively heavily eroded crater has a notch in the northwest.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 15.78 ° S , 56.1 ° W | 12 km | [1] |
B. | 15.53 ° S , 56.43 ° W | 9 km | [2] |
C. | 12.86 ° S , 57.11 ° W | 17 km | [3] |
D. | 17 ° S , 57.47 ° W | 12 km | [4] |
E. | 17.61 ° S , 57.96 ° W | 13 km | [5] |
F. | 16.24 ° S , 59.93 ° W | 7 km | [6] |
G | 15.95 ° S , 59.26 ° W | 15 km | [7] |
H | 13.99 ° S , 58.07 ° W | 9 km | [8th] |
K | 13.28 ° S , 57.43 ° W | 6 km | [9] |
M. | 17.22 ° S , 57.69 ° W | 7 km | [10] |
W. | 17.26 ° S , 58.45 ° W | 7 km | [11] |
Y | 16.69 ° S , 58.42 ° W | 6 km | [12] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian astronomer Francesco Fontana .
Web links
- Fontana in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Fontana 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 .