Lippershey (moon crater)
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| position | 25.97 ° S , 10.45 ° W | |
| diameter | 7 km | |
| depth | 1360 m | |
| Card sheet | 94 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | Hans Lipperhey (around 1570–1619) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Lippershey is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon in the east of the Mare Nubium plain , northeast of the Pitatus crater and west of Purbach .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
|---|---|---|---|
| K | 26.72 ° S , 11.52 ° W | 2 km | [1] |
| L. | 25.78 ° S , 11.85 ° W | 3 km | [2] |
| M. | 24.29 ° S , 10.96 ° W | 2 km | [3] |
| N | 24.54 ° S , 9.63 ° W | 3 km | [4] |
| P | 26.39 ° S , 8.45 ° W | 2 km | [5] |
| R. | 26.72 ° S , 10.24 ° W | 4 km | [6] |
| T | 25.31 ° S , 11.21 ° W | 5 km | [7] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Dutch optician Hans Lipperhey .
Web links
- Lippershey in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Lippershey 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 .