Gaudibert (moon crater)

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Gaudibert
Gaudibert (moon equatorial region)
Gaudibert
position 10.93 °  S , 37.82 °  E Coordinates: 10 ° 55 '48 "  S , 37 ° 49' 12"  E
diameter 33 km
depth 620 m
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Named after Casimir Marie Gaudibert (1823–1901)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Gaudibert is an impact crater on the front of the moon on the western edge of the Montes Pyrenaeus , between Mare Nectaris and Mare Fecunditatis , east of the Daguerre crater and southeast of Capella . The crater is very irregular and strongly shaped.

List of Gaudibert's minor craters
Letter position diameter link
A. 12.23 °  S , 37.93 °  O 18 km [1]
B. 12.35 °  S , 38.54 °  E 21 km [2]
C. 11.57 °  S , 37.77 °  O 9 km [3]
D. 10.62 °  S , 36.31 °  O 4 km [4]
H 13.84 °  S , 36.7 °  E 10 km [5]
J 11.21 °  S , 39.13 °  O 10 km [6]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French astronomer and selenographer Casimir Marie Gaudibert .

Web links

Individual evidence

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