Herodotus (moon crater)
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| Herodotus and Aristarchus with Vallis Schröteri ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 23.23 ° N , 49.82 ° W | |
| diameter | 34 km | |
| depth | 1300 m | |
| Card sheet | 39 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Herodotus (approx. 490/480–424 BC) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Herodotus (right with Vallis Schröteri) and Aristarchus photographed by Apollo 15 .
Herodotus is an impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon in the plane of Oceanus Procellarum . It is located immediately west of the conspicuous Aristarchus radiation crater .
The Vallis Schröteri runs north of Herodotus , an initially 10 km wide, winding lunar valley that initially runs north, then north-west and finally south-west.
The crater itself is flooded inside, the crater rim is eroded.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 21.52 ° N , 52.12 ° W | 10 km | [1] |
| B. | 22.55 ° N , 55.47 ° W | 6 km | [2] |
| C. | 21.93 ° N , 55.04 ° W | 5 km | [3] |
| E. | 29.35 ° N , 51.52 ° W | 37 km | [4] |
| G | 24.67 ° N , 50.32 ° W | 4 km | [5] |
| H | 26.77 ° N , 50.06 ° W | 6 km | [6] |
| K | 24.52 ° N , 51.96 ° W | 4 km | [7] |
| L. | 26.11 ° N , 53.17 ° W | 4 km | [8th] |
| N | 23.64 ° N , 50.12 ° W | 5 km | [9] |
| R. | 27.35 ° N , 53.94 ° W | 4 km | [10] |
| S. | 27.67 ° N , 53.42 ° W | 4 km | [11] |
| T | 27.87 ° N , 53.79 ° W | 5 km | [12] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Greek historian Herodotus .
Web links
- Herodotus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Herodotus on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [13] [14] [15]
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .