Meitner (Venus Crater)
| Crater on Venus | ||
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| Meitner | ||
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| Meitner crater (Radar image from the Magellan probe. The black stripe is due to missing radar data.) | ||
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| position | 55 ° 36 ′ S , 38 ° 24 ′ W | |
| diameter | 149 km | |
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| Eponym | Lise Meitner | |
Meitner is an impact crater on the planet Venus . With a diameter of 149 km, it is the third largest crater on Venus. The double crater, located in a flat volcanic plain, is surrounded by landslides of ejecta material that appear bright on the radar image. The ridges running through the plain in a northeastern direction appear to be older than the crater.
The naming after the nuclear physicist Lise Meitner was confirmed by the IAU in 1979.
literature
- AT Basilevsky, BA Ivanov, PG Ford, CM Weitz: Geology and Morphometry of Large Impact Craters of Venus . In: Journal: Abstracts of the 25th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held in Houston, TX, March 14-18, 1994 , pp. 67-68, online
- Jim S. Alexopoulos, William B. McKinnon: Multiringed impact craters on Venus: An overview from Arecibo and Venera images and initial Magellan data. In: Icarus (December 1992), 100 (2), doi: 10.1016 / 0019-1035 (92) 90105-G , pp. 347-363
Web links
- Meitner in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Image and DB entry for Meitner (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Basilevsky et al. 1994, p. 68