Lavoisier (moon crater)

Lavoisier
Lavoisier and Bunsen with side craters ( LROC -WAC)
position	38.13 °  N , 81.38 °  W Coordinates: 38 ° 7 '48 "  N , 81 ° 22' 48"  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 .

List of Lavoisier minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
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

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