King (moon crater)
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| position | 24.23 ° S , 24.74 ° W | |
| diameter | 23 km | |
| depth | 2440 m | |
| Card sheet | 94 (PDF) | |
| Type | TRI | |
| Named after | Rudolf König (1865–1927) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
König is an impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon in the Mare Nubium plain , southwest of the Bullialdus crater and northwest of Kies . The somewhat irregularly shaped crater is hardly eroded.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 24.79 ° S , 24.16 ° W | 3 km | [1] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Austrian astronomer Rudolf König .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .