Manzinus (moon crater)
| Manzinus | ||
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| position | 67.52 ° S , 26.11 ° O | |
| diameter | 98 km | |
| Card sheet | 138 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Carlo Antonio Manzini (1599–1677) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
The lunar crater Manzinus is a large ring mountain near the south pole of the Earth's moon and, together with the Moretus 200 km away , represents the most clearly visible ring structure in the southern highlands.
The interior of the crater floor is unusually flat for this mountainous region because it is covered with lava and has no central mountain . The south wall is broken through by an approximately 20 km large secondary crater (Manzinus A).
- Height of the crater edges approx. 3–4 km
The mountainous region behind this region, which is only visible at the very edge of the earth, and behind the neighboring Moretus crater is also called Leibniz Mountains , the heights of which are always in the sunlight (" Mountains of Eternal Light ").
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. | 68.54 ° S , 27.34 ° E | 20 km | [1] |
| B. | 63.7 ° S , 21.05 ° O | 28 km | [2] |
| C. | 69.95 ° S , 21.6 ° E | 24 km | [3] |
| D. | 69.38 ° S , 24.18 ° O | 33 km | [4] |
| E. | 68.96 ° S , 25.05 ° O | 18 km | [5] |
| F. | 64.08 ° S , 19.62 ° O | 17 km | [6] |
| G | 69.62 ° S , 25.62 ° O | 16 km | [7] |
| H | 68.61 ° S , 19.05 ° E | 19 km | [8th] |
| J | 66.41 ° S , 23.31 ° O | 12 km | [9] |
| K | 63.37 ° S , 20.19 ° E | 12 km | [10] |
| L. | 64.42 ° S , 22.51 ° O | 21 km | [11] |
| M. | 63.55 ° S , 22.63 ° O | 7 km | [12] |
| N | 70 ° S , 27.45 ° E | 9 km | [13] |
| O | 65.01 ° S , 24.98 ° O | 6 km | [14] |
| P | 67.94 ° S , 29.26 ° O | 6 km | [15] |
| R. | 65.93 ° S , 29.77 ° E | 15 km | [16] |
| S. | 66.47 ° S , 27.24 ° O | 11 km | [17] |
| T | 67.62 ° S , 32.8 ° O | 20 km | [18] |
| U | 68.66 ° S , 34.35 ° O | 21 km | [19] |
Sources and literature
- Antonín Rükl : Moon, Mars, Venus. Pocket atlas of the closest celestial bodies. Artia, Prague 1977, map No. 74 (also: Dausien, Hanau 1978, ISBN 3-7684-2795-1 ).
- Josef Sadil: Focus on the moon. Urania-Verlag, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1962.