Hercules (moon crater)

Hercules
Hercules and Atlas with side craters ( LROC -WAC)
position	46.91 °  N , 39.2 °  E Coordinates: 46 ° 54 ′ 36 "  N , 39 ° 12 ′ 0"  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.

List of Hercules minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
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

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .