Nicolai (moon crater)
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position | 42.47 ° S , 25.87 ° O | |
diameter | 41 km | |
depth | 2420 m | |
Card sheet | 113 (PDF) | |
Named after | Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai (1793–1846) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Nicolai is an impact crater in the south of the front of the moon , between the craters Barocius in the west and Fabricius in the east, north of Spallanzani . The crater is moderately eroded, the crater floor largely flat.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 42.48 ° S , 23.57 ° O | 14 km | [1] |
B. | 43.22 ° S , 25.25 ° E | 13 km | [2] |
C. | 44.13 ° S , 28.89 ° E | 26 km | [3] |
D. | 41.81 ° S , 25.56 ° O | 6 km | [4] |
E. | 40.68 ° S , 25.25 ° E | 12 km | [5] |
G | 42.91 ° S , 22.29 ° O | 10 km | [6] |
H | 43.59 ° S , 26.72 ° O | 18 km | [7] |
J | 40.66 ° S , 22.03 ° O | 8 kilometers | [8th] |
K | 42.95 ° S , 28.09 ° E | 22 km | [9] |
L. | 44.29 ° S , 25.69 ° O | 11 km | [10] |
M. | 42.53 ° S , 28.98 ° E | 10 km | [11] |
P | 43.25 ° S , 29.64 ° O | 28 km | [12] |
Q | 42.6 ° S , 30.01 ° O | 29 km | [13] |
R. | 41.58 ° S , 25.85 ° O | 5 km | [14] |
Z | 40.96 ° S , 21.45 ° E | 20 km | [15] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Friedrich Bernhard Gottfried Nicolai .
Web links
- Nicolai in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Nicolai 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 .