Mösting (moon crater)
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| The Apollo 12 - lunar module Intrepid on 19 November 1969. The bright crater at the top right is Mösting A. | ||
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| position | 0.69 ° S , 5.9 ° W | |
| diameter | 25 km | |
| Card sheet | 77 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Johannes von Mösting (1759–1843) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Mösting is a 26 km large, very deep moon crater on the mountainous edge of the Sinus Medii , near the middle of the visible half of the moon.
- Selenographic coordinates 1 ° south, 6 ° west
- named after the Danish statesman Johannes von Mösting (1759–1843), who founded the magazine Astronomische Nachrichten ,
Mösting has a sharp, regular crater wall and is hardly eroded, which indicates a relatively young age. About 70 km to the south is the smaller Mösting A , which was chosen as a reference point for measuring selenographic coordinates in the 19th century because of its precisely round shape . Its coordinates are 3 ° 10'47 "south, 5 ° 09'50" west.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 3.23 ° S , 5.24 ° W | 12 km | [1] |
| B. | 2.73 ° S , 7.44 ° W | 7 km | [2] |
| C. | 1.83 ° S , 8.16 ° W | 4 km | [3] |
| D. | 0.38 ° S , 5.16 ° W | 7 km | [4] |
| E. | 0.19 ° N , 4.62 ° W | 36 km | [5] |
| K | 0.77 ° S , 7.41 ° W | 3 km | [6] |
| L. | 0.71 ° S , 3.47 ° W | 4 km | [7] |
| M. | 1.36 ° S , 4.42 ° W | 32 km | [8th] |
| U | 3.14 ° S , 6.62 ° W | 18 km | [9] |
literature
- Antonín Rükl : Moon, Mars, Venus. Pocket atlas of the closest celestial bodies . Artaria-Verlag, Prague 1977, pp. 160-163.
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