Moigno (moon crater)

Moigno

Moigno with side craters ( LROC -WAC)

position

66.24 ° N , 28.94 ° O coordinates: 66 ° 14 '24 " N , 28 ° 56' 24" O

diameter

33 km

depth

760 m

Card sheet

4 (PDF)

Named after

François Napoléon Marie Moigno (1804-1884)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

33.38

Moigno is a small impact crater on the northeastern edge of the moon's front . It lies between the Neison craters in the northwest and Arnold craters in the northeast. The crater rim is heavily eroded.

List of minor craters of Moigno
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	64.78 ° N , 29.69 ° OMoon 64.78 29.69	16 km	[1]
B.	64.64 ° N , 26.09 ° OMoon 64.64 26.09	24 km	[2]
C.	65.95 ° N , 29.01 ° OMoon 65.95 29.01	9 km	[3]
D.	65.2 ° N , 27.57 ° EMoon 65.2 27:57	24 km	[4]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French mathematician and physicist François Napoléon Marie Moigno .

Web links

Moigno in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Moigno 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 .

Location of Moigno

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