Heinrich (moon crater)

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Heinrich
Heinrich (moon equatorial region)
Heinrich
position 24.83 °  N , 15.38 °  W Coordinates: 24 ° 49 '48 "  N , 15 ° 22' 48"  W.
diameter 7 km
depth 1460 m
Card sheet 40 (PDF)
Type ALC
Named after Wladimir Wáclav Heinrich (1884–1965)
Named since 1979
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Heinrich is a small impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon in the Mare Imbrium plain , east of Lambert crater and southwest of Timocharis .

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1979 after the Czech astronomer Wladimir Wáclav Heinrich .

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 .