Lagalla (moon crater)
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| Lagalla (middle left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 44.58 ° S , 23.13 ° W | |
| diameter | 65 km | |
| depth | 1390 m | |
| Card sheet | 111 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Giulio Cesare Lagalla (1576-1624) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Lagalla is an impact crater to the southwest of the front of the moon , west of Tycho crater . The very heavily eroded crater is covered in its northeastern part by the Wilhelm crater , in the southeast the crater rim, which is barely discernible, touches the also very heavily eroded rim of Montanari .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| F. | 44.62 ° S , 25.39 ° W | 29 km | [1] |
| H | 44.44 ° S , 27.2 ° W | 6 km | [2] |
| J | 46.11 ° S , 25.18 ° W | 22 km | [3] |
| K | 43.65 ° S , 24.48 ° W | 10 km | [4] |
| M. | 46.67 ° S , 25.91 ° W | 6 km | [5] |
| N | 44.97 ° S , 26.2 ° W | 11 km | [6] |
| P | 45.19 ° S , 24.56 ° W | 10 km | [7] |
| T | 47.38 ° S , 26.74 ° W | 7 km | [8th] |
| V | 46.92 ° S , 24.41 ° W | 5 km | [9] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian philosopher Giulio Cesare Lagalla .
Web links
- Lagalla in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Lagalla 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 .