Hercules (moon crater)
Hercules | ||
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Hercules and Atlas with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 46.91 ° N , 39.2 ° E | |
diameter | 71 km | |
depth | 2320 m | |
Card sheet | 27 (PDF) | |
Named after | Heracles | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Hercules is an impact crater on the northeastern front of the moon on the southeastern edge of Mare Frigoris . It lies to the west of the somewhat larger Atlas crater. In contrast to Atlas , its bottom has no fracture structures, but - apart from the Hercules G secondary crater - is largely flat. The wall is terraced several times.
Letter | position | diameter | link | |
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A. | Renamed to Keldysh | |||
B. | 47.84 ° N , 36.68 ° O | 7 km | [1] | |
C. | 42.72 ° N , 35.33 ° O | 9 km | [2] | |
D. | 44.77 ° N , 39.69 ° O | 8 kilometers | [3] | |
E. | 45.8 ° N , 38.67 ° O | 9 km | [4] | |
F. | 50.31 ° N , 41.71 ° O | 13 km | [5] | |
G | 46.46 ° N , 39.24 ° O | 14 km | [6] | |
H | 51.31 ° N , 41 ° O | 6 km | [7] | |
J | 44.1 ° N , 36.41 ° E | 8 kilometers | [8th] | |
K | 44.25 ° N , 36.93 ° E | 7 km | [9] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after Heracles , the hero of Greek mythology.
Web links
- Hercules in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Hercules on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [10]
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .