Liouville (moon crater)
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| Liouville (top right) and Respighi (image from Lunar Orbiter I) | ||
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| position | 2.74 ° N , 73.57 ° 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 | ||
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
- Liouville in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Liouville 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 .