Montanari (moon crater)
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| position | 45.83 ° S , 20.76 ° W | |
| diameter | 77 km | |
| depth | 2010 m | |
| Card sheet | 111 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Geminiano Montanari (1633–1687) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Montanari is an impact crater to the southwest of the lunar front , west of Tycho crater . The very heavily eroded, barely discernible crater rim touches the rim of the larger Wilhelm crater in the north and the also heavily eroded Lagalla in the northwest .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| D. | 45.93 ° S , 22.3 ° W | 25 km | [1] |
| W. | 44.83 ° S , 18.19 ° W | 6 km | [2] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian astronomer and lens grinder Geminiano Montanari .
Web links
- Montanari in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Montanari 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 .