Kunowsky (moon crater)
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| Kunowsky (bottom right) and surroundings ( LROC- WAC) | ||
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| position | 3.2 ° N , 32.54 ° W | |
| diameter | 18 km | |
| depth | 860 m | |
| Card sheet | 57 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Georg Carl Friedrich Kunowski (1786–1846) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Kunowsky is an impact crater on the western front of the moon on the edge of the Mare Insularum . It is located southeast of the Kepler crater and southwest of Copernicus .
The inside of the crater is flooded by the lavas of the surrounding mare , so that a flat crater level is surrounded by a relatively low, hardly eroded rim.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| C. | 0.22 ° S , 32.42 ° W | 4 km | [1] |
| D. | 1.52 ° N , 28.88 ° W | 5 km | [2] |
| G | 1.67 ° N , 30.83 ° W | 3 km | [3] |
| H | 1.1 ° N , 30.02 ° W | 3 km | [4] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Georg Carl Friedrich Kunowski .
Web links
- Kunowsky in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Kunowsky on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
Commons : Kunowsky (lunar crater) - collection of images, videos and audio files
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .