Liouville (moon crater)

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Liouville
Lunar craters Respighi and Liouville.jpg
Liouville (top right) and Respighi (image from Lunar Orbiter I)
Liouville (moon equatorial region)
Liouville
position 2.74 °  N , 73.57 °  O coordinates: 2 ° 44 '24 "  N , 73 ° 34' 12"  O
diameter 16 km
depth 2910 m
Card sheet 63 (PDF)
Named after Joseph Liouville (1809-1882)
Named since 1973
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Liouville is a small impact crater on the easternmost edge of the lunar front , southeast of Mare Undarum and east of the roughly equal size Respighi crater . The crater is bowl-shaped and only slightly eroded.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1973 after the French mathematician Joseph Liouville .

Web links

Individual evidence

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