Goclenius (moon crater)
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| Photo from Apollo 8 on December 24, 1968: Goclenius with his system of grooves is in the foreground; top left of the picture is Colombo A and below Magelhaens A (left) and Magelhaens (right); Gutenberg D. | ||
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| position | 10.08 ° S , 45.05 ° E | |
| diameter | 73 km | |
| Card sheet | 79 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Rudolf Goclenius the Younger (1572–1621) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
The lunar crater Goclenius is located on the western edge of Mare Fecunditatis , southeast of the lava-flooded Gutenberg crater and north of the Magelhaens crater . To the northwest is a system of rifts, the 240 km Rimae Goclenius . The crater is marked by grooves and is 72 km × 54 km in size. That some of the grooves in the area overlap the crater suggests that Goclenius is older than the structures surrounding him.
The namesake of this impact crater is Rudolf Goclenius the Younger .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| B. | 9.25 ° S , 44.45 ° E | 6 km | [1] |
| U | 9.35 ° S , 50.13 ° O | 22 km | [2] |
Goclenius A crater has been renamed Ibn-Battuta by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) .
Web links
- Goclenius in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- SkyTrip: Goclenius (German)
- The-moon.wikispaces.com: Goclenius (English)
- Goclenius crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
