Gould (moon crater)

Gould
Gould ( LROC -WAC)
position	19.25 °  S , 17.3 °  W Coordinates: 19 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  S , 17 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  W.
diameter	33 km
depth	190 m
Card sheet	94 (PDF)
Named after	Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Gould is an impact crater to the southwest of the front of the moon in the north of the Mare Nubium Plain , northeast of Bullialdus crater (lunar crater) and northeast of Nicollet .

The crater is largely flooded by the lavas of the Mare , so that only a remnant of the western crater rim is literally visible, only traces of the rest of the crater rim can be seen.

From the south-eastern edge of a running chain of small craters in the southwest to the craters Gould B .

List of Gould minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	19.24 °  S , 17.1 °  W	3 km	[1]
B.	20.54 °  S , 18.55 °  W	4 km	[2]
M.	17.65 °  S , 17.27 °  W	42 km	[3]
N	18.34 °  S , 17.73 °  W	17 km	[4]
P	18.86 °  S , 16.69 °  W	8 kilometers	[5]
U	18.25 °  S , 15.01 °  W	2 km	[6]
X	20.92 °  S , 16.97 °  W	3 km	[7]
Y	20.6 °  S , 15.93 °  W	2 km	[8th]
Z	19.58 °  S , 15.22 °  W	2 km	[9]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the American astronomer Benjamin Apthorp Gould .

Web links

• Gould in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Gould on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

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