Maginus (moon crater)
Maginus | ||
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Maginus with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 49.93 ° S , 6.76 ° W | |
diameter | 181 km | |
Card sheet | 126 (PDF) | |
Named after | Giovanni Antonio Magini (1555-1617) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Maginus is an old lunar crater in the southern highlands of the front of the moon southeast of the well-known Tycho crater. The outer rim of the crater is heavily eroded with overlays from later impacts. The inner surface is relatively flat.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 48.86 ° S , 4.56 ° W | 13 km | [1] |
B. | 52.44 ° S , 6.4 ° W | 12 km | [2] |
C. | 51.7 ° S , 9.66 ° W | 47 km | [3] |
D. | 47.9 ° S , 2.42 ° W | 36 km | [4] |
E. | 49.1 ° S , 1.44 ° W | 33 km | [5] |
F. | 49.01 ° S , 8.41 ° W | 17 km | [6] |
G | 48.05 ° S , 8 ° W | 22 km | [7] |
H | 52.49 ° S , 10.21 ° W | 14 km | [8th] |
J | 49.99 ° S , 3.01 ° W | 8 kilometers | [9] |
K | 47.23 ° S , 4.06 ° W | 28 km | [10] |
L. | 49.26 ° S , 9.11 ° W | 11 km | [11] |
M. | 50.4 ° S , 9.52 ° W | 9 km | [12] |
N | 48.52 ° S , 9.17 ° W | 23 km | [13] |
O | 50.63 ° S , 12.77 ° W | 12 km | [14] |
P | 50.71 ° S , 11.94 ° W | 10 km | [15] |
Q | 50.85 ° S , 2.45 ° W | 9 km | [16] |
R. | 48.85 ° S , 10.64 ° W | 8 kilometers | [17] |
S. | 49.82 ° S , 1.63 ° W | 10 km | [18] |
T | 52.39 ° S , 7.23 ° W | 6 km | [19] |
U | 47.38 ° S , 8.35 ° W | 10 km | [20] |
V | 49.42 ° S , 7.53 ° W | 9 km | [21] |
W. | 49.4 ° S , 8.09 ° W | 8 kilometers | [22] |
X | 51.38 ° S , 7.86 ° W | 7 km | [23] |
Y | 51.93 ° S , 9.33 ° W | 7 km | [24] |
Z | 50.33 ° S , 3.78 ° W | 16 km | [25] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian mathematician and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini .
Web links
- Maginus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Maginus on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum.de : amateur photo of Tycho and Maginus