Legendre (moon crater)

Legendre
Legendre (center left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)
position	28.98 °  S , 69.96 °  O coordinates: 28 ° 58 '48 "  S , 69 ° 57' 36"  O
diameter	81 km
depth	3680 m
Card sheet	98 (PDF)
Named after	Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752-1833)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Legendre is an impact crater to the east of the front of the moon , southeast of Mare Fecunditatis , west of Humboldt crater and southeast of Petavius . The roughly oval-shaped crater is heavily eroded, the interior largely flat.

List of Legendre minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
D.	31.64 °  S , 75.05 °  O	58 km	[1]
E.	33.89 °  S , 78.58 °  O	28 km	[2]
F.	33.67 °  S , 76.07 °  O	43 km	[3]
G	32.24 °  S , 73.9 °  E	17 km	[4]
H	32.46 °  S , 78.15 °  O	8 kilometers	[5]
J	30.62 °  S , 74.13 °  O	12 km	[6]
K	29.79 °  S , 72.21 °  O	92 km	[7]
L.	28.11 °  S , 73.46 °  O	31 km	[8th]
M.	28.16 °  S , 71.51 °  O	10 km	[9]
N	27.47 °  S , 70.47 °  O	5 km	[10]
P	27.31 °  S , 69.24 °  O	7 km	[11]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre .

Web links

• Legendre in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Legendre 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 .