Guericke (moon crater)
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| Guericke (bottom right; photo from Apollo 16 ) | ||
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| position | 11.58 ° S , 14.18 ° W | |
| diameter | 61 km | |
| depth | 740 m | |
| Card sheet | 76 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Otto von Guericke (1602–1686) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Guericke is an impact crater on the front of the moon to the north of Mare Nubium , southeast of Parry crater and west of Davy . The crater is very badly eroded, the interior is flooded by lava , with several openings in the crater wall.
| Letter | position | diameter | link | |
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| A. | 11.17 ° S , 17.34 ° W | 5 km | [1] | |
| B. | 14.6 ° S , 15.35 ° W | 15 km | [2] | |
| C. | Renamed Kundt | |||
| D. | 12.02 ° S , 14.69 ° W | 7 km | [3] | |
| E. | 10.04 ° S , 12.12 ° W | 4 km | [4] | |
| F. | 12.29 ° S , 15.36 ° W | 21 km | [5] | |
| G | 14.03 ° S , 15.07 ° W | 5 km | [6] | |
| H | 12.47 ° S , 14.34 ° W | 5 km | [7] | |
| J | 10.64 ° S , 13.47 ° W | 7 km | [8th] | |
| K | 15.15 ° S , 13.37 ° W | 3 km | [9] | |
| M. | 12.94 ° S , 12.52 ° W | 2 km | [10] | |
| N | 12.56 ° S , 9.98 ° W | 3 km | [11] | |
| P | 15.08 ° S , 14.76 ° W | 3 km | [12] | |
| S. | 10.37 ° S , 13.44 ° W | 10 km | [13] | |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German physicist Otto von Guericke .
Web links
- Guericke in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Guericke 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 .