Fontana (moon crater)

Fontana
position	16.07 °  S , 56.76 °  W Coordinates: 16 ° 4 ′ 12 "  S , 56 ° 45 ′ 36"  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.

List of minor craters of Fontana

Letter	position	diameter	link
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

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .