Hortensius (moon crater)
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| position | 6.45 ° N , 28.02 ° W | |
| diameter | 14 km | |
| depth | 2860 m | |
| Card sheet | 58 (PDF) | |
| Type | BIO | |
| Named after | Martinus Hortensius, scholar name of Martin van den Hove (1605–1639) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Hortensius is an impact crater on the western front of the moon in the Mare Insularum plain , southwest of Copernicus and northwest of Reinhold . The round crater rim is sharply defined. The crater is shaped like a bowl with a flat bottom.
North of Hortensius is a group of six domes of small shield volcanoes .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 4.35 ° N , 30.78 ° W | 10 km | [1] |
| B. | 5.24 ° N , 29.53 ° W | 6 km | [2] |
| C. | 5.91 ° N , 26.76 ° W | 6 km | [3] |
| D. | 5.39 ° N , 32.39 ° W | 7 km | [4] |
| E. | 5.23 ° N , 25.47 ° W | 15 km | [5] |
| F. | 7.03 ° N , 25.69 ° W | 6 km | [6] |
| G | 8.12 ° N , 26.19 ° W | 4 km | [7] |
| H | 5.85 ° N , 31.19 ° W | 6 km | [8th] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Martin van den Hove .
Web links
- Hortensius in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Hortensius 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 .