Lichtenberg (moon crater)
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| Lichtenberg and Briggs with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 31.83 ° N , 67.69 ° W | |
| diameter | 20 km | |
| depth | 2770 m | |
| Card sheet | 38 (PDF) | |
| Type | TRI | |
| Named after | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799). | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Lichtenberg is an impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon . It lies north of the Briggs crater in the plain of Oceanus Procellarum . It shows a small ray system running in north and west direction . The rim of the crater is hardly eroded with concentric slides inside.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 28.95 ° N , 60.09 ° W | 7 km | [1] |
| B. | 33.23 ° N , 61.5 ° W | 5 km | [2] |
| F. | 33.17 ° N , 65.42 ° W | 5 km | [3] |
| H | 31.51 ° N , 58.87 ° W | 4 km | [4] |
| R. | 34.6 ° N , 70.23 ° W | 29 km | [5] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German physicist and writer Georg Christoph Lichtenberg .
Web links
- Lichtenberg in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Lichtenberg 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 .