Loewy (moon crater)
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| Loewy (top left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 22.67 ° S , 32.87 ° W | |
| diameter | 22 km | |
| depth | 1090 m | |
| Card sheet | 93 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Maurice Loewy (1833–1907) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Loewy is a 22 km large impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon on the eastern edge of the Mare Humorum , southwest of the larger crater Agatharchides and northwest of Hippalus . The rim of the crater has been eroded and the interior has been flooded by the lavas of the Mare . In the southwest the crater is open to the plain of the Mare.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 22.34 ° S , 32.6 ° W | 7 km | [1] |
| B. | 23.21 ° S , 33.02 ° W | 4 km | [2] |
| G | 23.09 ° S , 32.13 ° W | 4 km | [3] |
| H | 22.79 ° S , 32.03 ° W | 5 km | [4] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French astronomer Maurice Loewy , the main author of the Paris lunar atlas from 1896 and 1910. The equally large lunar crater Puiseux, named after the second author, is located on the opposite edge of the Mare Humorum.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .