Nicolai (moon crater)

Nicolai

position

42.47 ° S , 25.87 ° O coordinates: 42 ° 28 '12 " S , 25 ° 52' 12" 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

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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.

List of minor craters from Nicolai
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	42.48 ° S , 23.57 ° OMoon -42.48 23:57	14 km	[1]
B.	43.22 ° S , 25.25 ° EMoon -43.22 25.25	13 km	[2]
C.	44.13 ° S , 28.89 ° EMoon -44.13 28.89	26 km	[3]
D.	41.81 ° S , 25.56 ° OMoon -41.81 25.56	6 km	[4]
E.	40.68 ° S , 25.25 ° EMoon -40.68 25.25	12 km	[5]
G	42.91 ° S , 22.29 ° OMoon -42.91 22.29	10 km	[6]
H	43.59 ° S , 26.72 ° OMoon -43.59 26.72	18 km	[7]
J	40.66 ° S , 22.03 ° OMoon -40.66 March 22nd	8 kilometers	[8th]
K	42.95 ° S , 28.09 ° EMoon -42.95 09/28	22 km	[9]
L.	44.29 ° S , 25.69 ° OMoon -44.29 25.69	11 km	[10]
M.	42.53 ° S , 28.98 ° EMoon -42.53 28.98	10 km	[11]
P	43.25 ° S , 29.64 ° OMoon -43.25 29.64	28 km	[12]
Q	42.6 ° S , 30.01 ° OMoon -42.6 30.1	29 km	[13]
R.	41.58 ° S , 25.85 ° OMoon -41.58 25.85	5 km	[14]
Z	40.96 ° S , 21.45 ° EMoon -40.96 9:45 p.m.	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 .

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