Nielsen (moon crater)
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| Nielsen ( Lunar Orbiter IV) | ||
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| position | 31.78 ° N , 51.75 ° W | |
| diameter | 10 km | |
| depth | 1960 m | |
| Card sheet | 38 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after |
Axel Vilfrid Nielsen (1902–1970) Harald Herborg Nielsen (1903–1973) |
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| Named since | 1973 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Nielsen is a small impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon . It lies northeast of the tip of the Montes Agricola in the plain of the Oceanus Procellarum , northwest of the large Aristarchus crater . An unnamed dorsum runs parallel to the Dorsa Whiston von Nielsen in a north-westerly direction to Mons Rümker .
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1973 after the Danish astronomer Axel Vilfrid Nielsen and the American physicist Harald Herborg Nielsen .
Web links
- Nielsen in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Nielsen 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 .