Helmholtz (moon crater)
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| Helmholtz ( Lunar Orbiter 4 ) | ||
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| position | 68.52 ° S , 65.24 ° O | |
| diameter | 103 km | |
| depth | 4410 m | |
| Card sheet | 139 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Helmholtz is an impact crater in the extreme southeast of the front of the moon , southwest of the crater Gill and northwest of Neumayer . The rim of the crater is heavily eroded, the interior largely flat with a small central mountain .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 64.51 ° S , 51.45 ° O | 16 km | [1] |
| B. | 67.93 ° S , 68.44 ° O | 12 km | [2] |
| D. | 66.41 ° S , 54.09 ° O | 45 km | [3] |
| F. | 64.44 ° S , 60.54 ° E | 50 km | [4] |
| H | 64.54 ° S , 64.94 ° O | 18 km | [5] |
| J | 64.9 ° S , 68.12 ° E | 23 km | [6] |
| M. | 65.35 ° S , 51.29 ° O | 24 km | [7] |
| N | 64.96 ° S , 50.16 ° E | 14 km | [8th] |
| R. | 63.79 ° S , 55.22 ° E | 12 km | [9] |
| S. | 64.4 ° S , 56.62 ° O | 32 km | [10] |
| T | 65.78 ° S , 60.05 ° O | 31 km | [11] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German physiologist and physicist Hermann von Helmholtz .
Web links
- Helmholtz in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Helmholtz 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 .