Hermite (moon crater)
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| Hermite and surroundings (north up, LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 86.08 ° N , 91.31 ° W | |
| diameter | 105 km | |
| depth | 5140 m | |
| Card sheet | 1 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Charles Hermite , French mathematician (1822–1901) | |
| Named since | 1964 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Hermite is an impact crater on the moon near the north pole of the moon , its interior is therefore mostly in shadow. The temperatures there therefore reach particularly low values. In 2009, the Diviner instrument of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter measured a temperature of only 26 K (−247.15 ° C ) on the southwestern edge of the interior of the crater . It is the lowest temperature measured anywhere in the solar system and the crater floor of Hermite is significantly colder than the surface of Pluto .
To the south of Hermite lie the Lovelace and Sylvester craters . Lenard Crater covers parts of the southeastern rim of Hermite. In the northeast lies the small crater Gore , in the southeast Grignard . The western edge connects to the Rozhdestvenskiy whale plain .
The crater was named in 1963 by David Arthur and Even Whitaker in their "Rectified Lunar Atlas" after the French mathematician Charles Hermite . The name was confirmed by the IAU in 1964.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 87.94 ° N , 51.01 ° W | 20 km | [1] |
Web links
- Hermite in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Hermite on The-moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jonathan Amos: 'Coldest place' found on the Moon , BBC News, December 16, 2009
- ^ Ewen Whitaker, Mapping and Naming the Moon , 1999, p. 234
