Krafft (moon crater)

Strength

Krafft and Cardanus ( LROC -WAC)

position

16.55 ° N , 72.69 ° W Coordinates: 16 ° 33 '0 " N , 72 ° 41' 24" W

diameter

51 km

depth

3520 m

Card sheet

37 (PDF)

Type

TYC

Named after

Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft (1743–1814)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Krafft is an impact crater on the northwestern edge of the moon front . It lies north of the Cardanus crater on the western edge of the Oceanus Procellarum . The elongated structure of the Catena Krafft , known as the chain of craters ( Catena ), runs between Krafft and Cardanus . The crater wall has terracing and is moderately eroded. The interior is relatively flat , except for the secondary crater Krafft C.

List of minor craters from Krafft
Letter	position	diameter	link
C.	16.34 ° N , 72.45 ° WMoon 16.34 -72.45	13 km	[1]
D.	15.09 ° N , 73.35 ° WMoon 09.15 -73.35	12 km	[2]
E.	15.9 ° N , 71.78 ° WMoon 15.9 -71.78	10 km	[3]
H	16.89 ° N , 77.88 ° WMoon 16.89 -77.88	15 km	[4]
K	16.48 ° N , 74.64 ° WMoon 16.48 -74.64	12 km	[5]
L.	15.98 ° N , 76.46 ° WMoon 15.98 -76.46	20 km	[6]
M.	17.77 ° N , 75.56 ° WMoon 17.77 -75.56	11 km	[7]
U	17.22 ° N , 64.74 ° WMoon 17.22 -64.74	3 km	[8th]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German-Russian astronomer Wolfgang Ludwig Krafft .

Web links

Krafft in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Power 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 .

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