Gagarin (moon crater)
| Gagarin | ||
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| position | 20.02 ° S , 149.17 ° O | |
| diameter | 267 km | |
| Card sheet | 102 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Yuri Alexejewitsch Gagarin (1934–1968) | |
| Named since | 1970 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Gagarin is a large impact crater on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the moon. It lies between the Pawlov craters in the southwest and Keeler in the northeast. Closer to its edge are the Levi-Civita crater to the southwest and the Beijerinck crater to the north-northeast . Fully within the confines of Gagarin are Isaev , Raspletin , Andronov , and Grave craters , all named after Russian aerospace pioneers .
The crater has a long history of impacts and is accordingly heavily eroded. Its worn edge forms a low, round ridge around the slightly bowl-shaped interior. The crater floor is littered with a multitude of impacts of various sizes. There are no longer any traces of a possibly existing central ridge.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| G | 20.73 ° S , 150.43 ° O | 14 km | [1] |
| M. | 23.56 ° S , 149.37 ° O | 19 km | [2] |
| T | 19.56 ° S , 144.82 ° O | 25 km | [3] |
| Z | 15.62 ° S , 149.43 ° O | 27 km | [4] |
Web links
- Gagarin in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Gagarin crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
