Fontenelle (moon crater)
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| Fontenelle with side craters (north above; LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 63.37 ° N , 18.91 ° W | |
| diameter | 38 km | |
| depth | 1500 m | |
| Card sheet | 12 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657–1757) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Fontenelle is an impact crater on the moon to the north of the lunar front on the northern edge of Mare Frigoris , south of Anaxagoras and southeast of Philolaus .
The crater rim is somewhat eroded and the crater floor shows fractures and ridge structures, features of a floor-fractured crater , which are associated with volcanic activity below the crater floor.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 67.6 ° N , 16.17 ° W | 22 km | [1] |
| B. | 61.89 ° N , 23.01 ° W | 13 km | [2] |
| C. | 64.49 ° N , 27.32 ° W | 13 km | [3] |
| D. | 62.61 ° N , 23.46 ° W | 16 km | [4] |
| F. | 64.38 ° N , 28.23 ° W | 11 km | [5] |
| G | 59.57 ° N , 18.39 ° W | 4 km | [6] |
| H | 64.07 ° N , 20.18 ° W | 6 km | [7] |
| K | 69.64 ° N , 15.77 ° W | 7 km | [8th] |
| L. | 66.53 ° N , 16.64 ° W | 5 km | [9] |
| M. | 63.14 ° N , 28.88 ° W | 9 km | [10] |
| N | 64.04 ° N , 29.75 ° W | 8 kilometers | [11] |
| P | 64.18 ° N , 17.29 ° W | 6 km | [12] |
| R. | 64.28 ° N , 18.77 ° W | 5 km | [13] |
| S. | 65.3 ° N , 26.86 ° W | 8 kilometers | [14] |
| T | 66.36 ° N , 25.9 ° W | 7 km | [15] |
| X | 60.54 ° N , 27.82 ° W | 7 km | [16] |
The crater was named by the IAU in 1935 after the French reconnaissance and astronomer Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle .
Web links
- Fontenelle in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Fontenelle on The-moon Wiki
Individual evidence
