Lehmann (moon crater)

Lehmann

Lehmann and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)

position

39.97 ° S , 56.13 ° W Coordinates: 39 ° 58 ′ 12 " S , 56 ° 7 ′ 48" W

diameter

54 km

depth

1290 m

Card sheet

110 (PDF)

Named after

Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmann (1800–1863)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

53.85

Lehmann is an impact crater on the western edge of the front of the moon , immediately north of the edge of the Schickard whale plain . The rim of the crater is heavily eroded, the interior largely flat. An opening in the southern rim of the crater connects the interior of the crater to the crater level of the Schickard.

List of Lehmann's secondary craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	39.52 ° S , 53.84 ° WMoon -39.52 -53.84	30 km	[1]
C.	35.57 ° S , 50.17 ° WMoon -35.57 -50.17	15 km	[2]
D.	39.56 ° S , 57.49 ° WMoon -39.56 -57.49	12 km	[3]
E.	37.46 ° S , 54.95 ° WMoon -37.46 -54.95	45 km	[4]
H	41.03 ° S , 58.71 ° WMoon -41.03 -58.71	14 km	[5]
K	36.44 ° S , 50.53 ° WMoon -36.44 -50.53	5 km	[6]
L.	36.42 ° S , 52.03 ° WMoon -36.42 -52.03	6 km	[7]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmann .

Web links

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

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