Lamèch (moon crater)

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Lamèch
Eudoxus - LROC - WAC.JPG
Eudoxus, lower left Lamèch ( LROC -WAC)
Lamèch (moon equatorial region)
Lamèch
position 42.76 °  N , 13.14 °  E Coordinates: 42 ° 45 '36 "  N , 13 ° 8' 24"  E
diameter 13 km
depth 1460 m
Card sheet 26 (PDF)
Named after Félix Chemla Lamèch (1894–1962)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Lamech is a small crater on the northeast near side of the moon , south of the secondary crater Eudoxus D , southwest of the crater Eudoxus . The crater is bowl-shaped, the rim of the crater is eroded.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French selenographer Félix Chemla Lamèch .

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 .