Helicon (moon crater)
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| Helicon and Le Verrier (right), with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 40.37 ° N , 23.11 ° W | |
| diameter | 24 km | |
| depth | 1910 m | |
| Card sheet | 24 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Helicon of Kyzikos (4th century BC) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Helicon is a relatively small impact crater to the northwest of the front of the moon in the Mare Imbrium plain . To the east of this is the somewhat smaller Le Verrier crater .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| B. | 37.93 ° N , 21.31 ° W | 5 km | [1] |
| C. | 40.06 ° N , 26.27 ° W | 1 km | [2] |
| E. | 40.47 ° N , 24.19 ° W | 3 km | [3] |
| G | 41.75 ° N , 24.92 ° W | 3 km | [4] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Greek mathematician Helikon von Kyzikos .
Web links
- Helicon in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Helicon 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 .