Horrebow (moon crater)
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| Horrebow with side craters and J. Herschel in the north ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 58.77 ° N , 40.92 ° W | |
| diameter | 25 km | |
| depth | 3010 m | |
| Card sheet | 11 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Peder Horrebow (1679–1764) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Horrebow is a small impact crater in the northwest of the front of the moon between the whale plain of J. Herschel and the northern edge of Mare Frigoris . To the west is the small Robinson crater . The crater rim is only slightly eroded. The northeastern edge covers the almost equally large Horrebow A secondary crater .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 59.21 ° N , 40.53 ° W | 25 km | [1] |
| B. | 58.73 ° N , 42.94 ° W | 12 km | [2] |
| C. | 56.96 ° N , 36.04 ° W | 5 km | [3] |
| D. | 57.96 ° N , 38.84 ° W | 4 km | [4] |
| G | 59.83 ° N , 41.87 ° W | 7 km | [5] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Danish astronomer Peder Horrebow .
Web links
- Horrebow in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Horrebow 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 .