Markov (moon crater)
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| Markov and north of it Oenopides ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 53.44 ° N , 62.79 ° W | |
| diameter | 41 km | |
| depth | 3380 m | |
| Card sheet | 10 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Alexander Wladimirowitsch Markow (1897–1968) and Andrei Andrejewitsch Markow (1856–1922) | |
| Named since | 1964 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Markov is an impact crater on the northwestern edge of the lunar front . It is located south of the crater Oenopides (moon crater) on the northern edge of Sinus Roris and Oceanus Procellarum . The ramparts are terraced and hardly eroded, the interior has a central mountain .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| E. | 50.66 ° N , 60.26 ° W | 12 km | [1] |
| F. | 50.09 ° N , 62 ° W | 8 kilometers | [2] |
| G | 49.97 ° N , 56.24 ° W | 5 km | [3] |
| U | 51.88 ° N , 60.12 ° W | 29 km | [4] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1964 after the Russian mathematician Andrei Andrejewitsch Markow . The name first appeared in the Rectified Lunar Atlas by Whitaker et al. 1963. According to the IAU, the name now also applies to the Russian astrophysicist Alexander Wladimirowitsch Markow, who died in 1968 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .
- ^ EA Whitaker, GP Kuiper, WK Hartmann, LH Spradley: Rectified Lunar Atlas. Supplement no. 2 to the Photographic Lunar Atlas (= Contributions of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. No. 3). University of Arizona Press, Tucson AZ 1963.