Klaproth (moon crater)

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Klaproth
Klaproth (moon south pole region)
Klaproth
position 69.81 °  S , 26.66 °  W Coordinates: 69 ° 48 '36 "  S , 26 ° 39' 36"  W
diameter 110 km
depth 2770 m
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Named after Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Klaproth is an impact crater in the extreme south of the lunar front side , immediately north of the Casatus crater , which overlaps part of the southern rim of the crater. The oval deformed crater rim is heavily eroded, the interior is largely flat.

List of Klaproth secondary craters
Letter position diameter link
A. 68.17 °  S , 21.96 °  W 35 km [1]
B. 71.81 °  S , 24.09 °  W 11 km [2]
C. 69.2 °  S , 19.72 °  W 6 km [3]
D. 70.25 °  S , 21.15 °  W 8 kilometers [4]
G 68.66 °  S , 31.55 °  W 29 km [5]
H 69.2 °  S , 33.21 °  W 44 km [6]
L. 70.11 °  S , 36.99 °  W 11 km [7]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .