Mouchez (moon crater)
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| Mouchez with side crater ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 78.44 ° N , 26.83 ° W | |
| diameter | 83 km | |
| depth | 1380 m | |
| Card sheet | 3 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Ernest Mouchez (1821-1892), French naval officer and astronomer | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Mouchez is an impact crater on the Moon on the northwestern edge of the Moon's front . The heavily eroded and partially leveled crater is northeast of Pascal and northwest of Anaxagoras .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 80.86 ° N , 30.32 ° W | 47 km | [1] |
| B. | 78.34 ° N , 23.12 ° W | 8 kilometers | [2] |
| C. | 77.41 ° N , 26.18 ° W | 13 km | [3] |
| J | 79.5 ° N , 38.59 ° W | 17 km | [4] |
| L. | 78.7 ° N , 40.8 ° W | 19 km | [5] |
| M. | 80.25 ° N , 50.16 ° W | 17 km | [6] |
The crater was named by the IAU in 1935 after the French naval officer and astronomer Amédée Mouchez .