Lockyer (moon crater)
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| Lockyer (center left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 46.29 ° S , 36.57 ° O | |
| diameter | 35 km | |
| depth | 1530 m | |
| Card sheet | 114 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Lockyer is an impact crater to the south of the lunar front , west of the great Janssen crater and northeast of Pitiscus . The crater is only slightly eroded, the crater floor is flat.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 44.13 ° S , 30.96 ° O | 10 km | [1] |
| F. | 47.61 ° S , 36.42 ° E | 20 km | [2] |
| G | 45.7 ° S , 33.31 ° E | 24 km | [3] |
| H | 44.5 ° S , 32.39 ° O | 32 km | [4] |
| J | 45.08 ° S , 32.2 ° E | 12 km | [5] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the British astrophysicist Joseph Norman Lockyer .
Web links
- Lockyer in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Lockyer 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 .