Furnerius (moon crater)

Furnerius
Furnerius ( LROC -WAC)
position	36.05 °  S , 60.49 °  O coordinates: 36 ° 3 '0 "  S , 60 ° 29' 24"  O
diameter	135 km
depth	3920 m
Card sheet	115 (PDF)
Named after	Georges Fournier (1595-1652)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Furnerius is a large impact crater to the south of the lunar front , south of Mare Fecunditatis and Petavius crater , southeast of Stevinus . The smaller Fraunhofer crater is located southwest of Furnerius .

The rim of the crater is heavily eroded and partially leveled, the interior is largely flat. The Rima Furnerius moon groove runs through the northeastern part in a southeastern direction .

List of Furnerius secondary craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	33.57 °  S , 59 °  O	11 km	[1]
B.	35.44 °  S , 59.9 °  E	22 km	[2]
C.	33.75 °  S , 57.69 °  E	21 km	[3]
D.	37.07 °  S , 55.86 °  E	17 km	[4]
E.	34.8 °  S , 57.18 °  E	21 km	[5]
F.	36.1 °  S , 64.12 °  O	52 km	[6]
G	38.14 °  S , 65.36 °  E	34 km	[7]
H	37.62 °  S , 69.62 °  O	44 km	[8th]
J	34.86 °  S , 63.87 °  O	24 km	[9]
K	38.13 °  S , 67.91 °  O	36 km	[10]
L.	38.61 °  S , 69.85 °  E	15 km	[11]
N	33.57 °  S , 60.91 °  O	10 km	[12]
P	37.91 °  S , 61.68 °  E	17 km	[13]
Q	39.5 °  S , 67.21 °  O	31 km	[14]
R.	39.94 °  S , 68.91 °  O	16 km	[15]
S.	39.14 °  S , 67.86 °  O	17 km	[16]
T	37.88 °  S , 62.9 °  E	10 km	[17]
U	35.75 °  S , 68.27 °  O	18 km	[18]
V	35.75 °  S , 65.31 °  O	61 km	[19]
W.	37.3 °  S , 70.96 °  O	20 km	[20]
X	33.9 °  S , 63.43 °  O	9 km	[21]
Y	34.21 °  S , 64.97 °  O	12 km	[22]
Z	33.5 °  S , 62.91 °  O	9 km	[23]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French Jesuit , mathematician and geographer Georges Fournier .

The name originally appears on Giovanni Battista Riccioli's lunar map from 1651 as “Furnerius Soc. I ", where" Soc. I “stands for Societas Jesu , the order of the Jesuits. At the time of inclusion in the nomenclature and publication, the reference seems to have been lost due to a misspelling of the name. The name has since been traced back to a French mathematician named "Georges Furner" (fl. 1643).

Web links

• Furnerius in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Furnerius on The-Moon Wiki
• The Lunar Crater Furnerius and the Mystery of Schroters Dome

Individual evidence

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .
2. ↑ “Furner, Georges; French mathematician (unkn-fl. 1643) “See: Mary Adela Blagg , Karl Müller : Named lunar Formations. Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd., London 1935.
3. ↑ In 1643 Fournier's main work Hydrographie appeared: Contenant La Theory Et La Practiqve De Tovtes Les Parties De La Navigation .