Mercator (moon crater)
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| position | 29.27 ° S , 26.2 ° W | |
| diameter | 46 km | |
| depth | 1100 m | |
| Card sheet | 94 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Gerhard Mercator (1512–1594) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Mercator is an impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon between Mare Nubium and Palus Epidemiarum , immediately southeast of the Campanus crater and north of Capuanus . The rim of the crater is eroded and the inside is flat.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 30.65 ° S , 27.9 ° W | 8 kilometers | [1] |
| B. | 29.17 ° S , 25.27 ° W | 8 kilometers | [2] |
| C. | 29.15 ° S , 27.1 ° W | 8 kilometers | [3] |
| D. | 29.35 ° S , 25.43 ° W | 7 km | [4] |
| E. | 30.1 ° S , 26.9 ° W | 6 km | [5] |
| F. | 29.69 ° S , 26.95 ° W | 3 km | [6] |
| G | 31.15 ° S , 25.14 ° W | 14 km | [7] |
| K | 30.66 ° S , 22.86 ° W | 4 km | [8th] |
| L. | 30.79 ° S , 23.63 ° W | 5 km | [9] |
| M. | 30.23 ° S , 23.77 ° W | 4 km | [10] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the cartographer and mathematician Gerhard Mercator .
Web links
- Mercator in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Mercator on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .