Hell (moon crater)
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| Bright (middle left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 32.43 ° S , 7.85 ° W | |
| diameter | 33 km | |
| depth | 2200 m | |
| Card sheet | 112 (PDF) | |
| Type | TRI | |
| Named after | Maximilian Hell (1720–1792) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Hell is an impact crater in the south of the front of the moon , south of the Mare Nubium , in the interior of the Deslandres mountain range , near the western edge. The crater rim is hardly eroded, the inside shows concentric structures.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 33.91 ° S , 8.51 ° W | 20 km | [1] |
| B. | 30.04 ° S , 5.87 ° W | 22 km | [2] |
| C. | 34.11 ° S , 6.59 ° W | 14 km | [3] |
| E. | 34.64 ° S , 6.3 ° W | 9 km | [4] |
| H | 31.75 ° S , 3.9 ° W | 5 km | [5] |
| J | 29.7 ° S , 6.96 ° W | 5 km | [6] |
| K | 34.11 ° S , 5.4 ° W | 5 km | [7] |
| L. | 30.68 ° S , 4.79 ° W | 5 km | [8th] |
| M. | 30.36 ° S , 4.82 ° W | 8 kilometers | [9] |
| N | 30.07 ° S , 5.07 ° W | 3 km | [10] |
| P | 32.56 ° S , 5.85 ° W | 3 km | [11] |
| Q | 33 ° S , 4.55 ° W | 4 km | [12] |
| R. | 32.73 ° S , 6.66 ° W | 3 km | [13] |
| S. | 33.54 ° S , 6.36 ° W | 4 km | [14] |
| T | 33.71 ° S , 7.13 ° W | 5 km | [15] |
| U | 33.42 ° S , 9.28 ° W | 4 km | [16] |
| V | 32.82 ° S , 8.88 ° W | 7 km | [17] |
| W. | 32.54 ° S , 8.73 ° W | 8 kilometers | [18] |
| X | 31.98 ° S , 9.27 ° W | 4 km | [19] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Austrian Jesuit and astronomer Maximilian Hell .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .