Louville (moon crater)

Louville

Louville with side craters, in the middle of the picture Rima Sharp ( LROC- WAC)

position

44.12 ° N , 46.04 ° W Coordinates: 44 ° 7 '12 " N , 46 ° 2' 24" W.

diameter

35 km

depth

1870 m

Card sheet

23 (PDF)

Named after

Jacques d'Allonville , Chevalier de Louville (1671–1732)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

34.81

Louville is an impact crater in the northwest of the front of the moon , on the eastern edge of Oceanus Procellarum . The crater is very heavily eroded and the crater wall is almost completely leveled and covered by smaller craters, so that it is very difficult to make out in the surrounding uneven terrain.

List of secondary craters of Louville
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	43.26 ° N , 45.32 ° WMoon 43.26 -45.32	8 kilometers	[1]
B.	44.04 ° N , 46.52 ° WMoon 44.04 -46.52	8 kilometers	[2]
D.	46.85 ° N , 52.13 ° WMoon 46.85 -52.13	7 km	[3]
THERE	46.57 ° N , 51.71 ° WMoon 46.57 -51.71	11 km	[4]
E.	43.17 ° N , 45.94 ° WMoon 43.17 -45.94	6 km	[5]
K	46.78 ° N , 55.21 ° WMoon 46.78 -55.21	5 km	[6]
P	45.59 ° N , 52.2 ° WMoon 45.59 -52.2	7 km	[7]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French astronomer and mathematician Jacques d'Allonville , Chevalier de Louville.

Web links

Louville in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Louville 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 .

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