Liebig (moon crater)

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Liebig (moon equatorial region)
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position 24.32 °  S , 48.26 °  W Coordinates: 24 ° 19 '12 "  S , 48 ° 15' 36"  W.
diameter 38 km
depth 2360 m
Card sheet 93 (PDF)
Named after Justus von Liebig (1803–1873)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Liebig is an impact crater on the western edge of the front of the moon , west of Mare Humorum , south of Mersenius crater and north of Palmieri . The crater rim is somewhat irregularly shaped and eroded. A lunar groove of the Rimae de Gasparis runs tangent to the north-western edge of the crater .

List of Liebig's secondary craters
Letter position diameter link
A. 24.3 °  S , 47.75 °  W 10 km [1]
B. 25.03 °  S , 47.15 °  W 9 km [2]
F. 24.68 °  S , 45.79 °  W 9 km [3]
G 26.14 °  S , 45.85 °  W 20 km [4]
H 26.31 °  S , 47.41 °  W 10 km [5]
J 24.83 °  S , 45.14 °  W 4 km [6]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German chemist Justus von Liebig .

Web links

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