Lavoisier (moon crater)
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Lavoisier and Bunsen with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 38.13 ° N , 81.38 ° W | |
diameter | 70 km | |
depth | 770 m | |
Card sheet | 22 (PDF) | |
Named after | Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Lavoisier is an impact crater on the northwestern edge of the moon front on the western edge of Oceanus Procellarum . It is located southwest of the Braun crater , the former Lavoisier D secondary crater .
The crater wall is heavily eroded, the interior shows the ring-shaped fracture structures of a floor-fractured crater, in the southeastern part the groove structures connect with the adjoining Lavoisier F secondary crater .
Letter | position | diameter | link | |
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A. | 36.95 ° N , 73.24 ° W | 29 km | [1] | |
B. | 39.74 ° N , 79.72 ° W | 26 km | [2] | |
C. | 35.75 ° N , 76.68 ° W | 35 km | [3] | |
D. | Renamed to von Braun | |||
E. | 40.88 ° N , 80.37 ° W | 50 km | [4] | |
F. | 37.04 ° N , 80.42 ° W | 36 km | [5] | |
G | 37.18 ° N , 85.6 ° W | 19 km | [6] | |
H | 38.16 ° N , 78.9 ° W | 29 km | [7] | |
J | 37.45 ° N , 86.52 ° W | 22 km | [8th] | |
K | 39.73 ° N , 74.41 ° W | 7 km | [9] | |
L. | 39.73 ° N , 74.96 ° W | 7 km | [10] | |
N | 41.9 ° N , 82.3 ° W | 24 km | [11] | |
S. | 39 ° N , 83.06 ° W | 25 km | [12] | |
T | 36.47 ° N , 76.6 ° W | 18 km | [13] | |
W. | 36.8 ° N , 81.83 ° W | 17 km | [14] | |
Z | 36.11 ° N , 86.25 ° W | 12 km | [15] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French chemist Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier .
Web links
- Lavoisier in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Lavoisier 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 .