Malapert (moon crater)
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| Malapert and surroundings (temperature image from LRO / Diviner ) | ||
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| position | 84.8 ° S , 12.31 ° E | |
| diameter | 70 km | |
| Card sheet | 144 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Charles Malapert (1581-1630) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Malapert is an impact crater on the front of the Moon near the South Pole, southwest of Scott Crater and northeast of Cabeus . The elongated, irregularly shaped crater is heavily eroded. The interior, which is mostly in the shade due to its location near the South Pole, is also furrowed from numerous subsequent impacts.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 80.19 ° S , 3.46 ° W | 33 km | [1] |
| B. | 78.78 ° S , 2.93 ° W | 33 km | [2] |
| C. | 80.97 ° S , 9.93 ° O | 39 km | [3] |
| E. | 83.97 ° S , 20.25 ° O | 24 km | [4] |
| F. | 81.53 ° S , 14.7 ° E | 11 km | [5] |
| K | 78.66 ° S , 6.21 ° O | 32 km | [6] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Belgian Jesuit and astronomer Charles Malapert .
literature
- BL Cooper: Craters and Channels on Malapert Mountain in the Lunar South Pole Region: Challenges Associated with High-Incidence-Angle Imagery . 2006, PDF
- Burton L. Sharpe, David G. Schrunk: Malapert Mountain Revisited. In: Proceedings of Space 2002: The Eighth International Conference And Exposition On Engineering, Construction, Operations, And Business In Space. Pp. 129-135