Marth (moon crater)

Marth
Marth ( LROC -WAC)
position	31.18 °  S , 29.39 °  W Coordinates: 31 ° 10 ′ 48 ″  S , 29 ° 23 ′ 24 ″  W.
diameter	7 km
depth	1070 m
Card sheet	94 (PDF)
Named after	Albert Marth (1828-1897)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Marth is an impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon in the plains of the Palus Epidemiarum , southwest of the Mercator crater , near the Rimae Ramsden . The small crater has a double wall, in which a slightly smaller inner crater is located exactly in the center of the outer crater.

List of secondary craters by Marth

Letter	position	diameter	link
K	29.97 °  S , 28.84 °  W	3 km	[1]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Albert Marth .

Marth (bottom left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)

Web links

• Marth in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Marth on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .