Gardener (moon crater)

gardener

Crater Gardener (Photo Lunar Orbiter 4 )

position

59.23 ° N , 34.69 ° O coordinates: 59 ° 13 '48 " N , 34 ° 41' 24" O

diameter

102 km

depth

930 m

Card sheet

13 (PDF)

Named after

Christian Gärtner (1705–1782)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

101.79

Gardener is an impact crater on the moon . It lies south of Democritus , is heavily eroded, largely leveled in the southwestern part and flooded in the interior by the Mare Frigoris adjoining in the south . Inside, the Rima Gärtner moon groove runs from the Gärtner D secondary crater in a northeastern direction.

List of side craters from Gärtner
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	60.69 ° N , 37.67 ° OMoon 60.69 37.67	13 km	[1]
C.	59.51 ° N , 31.1 ° EMoon 59.51 31.1	8 kilometers	[2]
D.	58.5 ° N , 33.96 ° OMoon 58.5 33.96	8 kilometers	[3]
E.	61.55 ° N , 43.78 ° OMoon 61.55 43.78	5 km	[4]
F.	57.54 ° N , 30.25 ° OMoon 57.54 30.25	14 km	[5]
G	59.64 ° N , 39.89 ° OMoon 59.64 39.89	23 km	[6]
M.	55.52 ° N , 37.02 ° EMoon 55.52 37.02	11 km	[7]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Christian Gärtner . The name first appeared in the Selenotopographische Fragmenten by Johann Hieronymus Schroeter .

Web links

Gardener in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Gardener 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 .
^ Johann Hieronymus Schroeter: Selenotopographische Fragments. 1791, vol. 2, plate 57 .

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

[2] Johann Hieronymus Schroeter: Selenotopographische Fragments. 1791, vol. 2, plate 57 .