Nobili (moon crater)

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Nobili
Nobili (moon equatorial region)
Nobili
position 0.14 °  N , 75.86 °  O coordinates: 0 ° 8 '24'  N , 75 ° 51 '36 "  O
diameter 42 km
depth 3807 m
Card sheet 63 (PDF)
Named after Leopoldo Nobili (1784–1835)
Named since 1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Nobili is an impact crater on the front of the moon , immediately west of the Schubert X crater , the edge of which is partially covered by Nobili.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1976 after the Italian physicist Leopoldo Nobili .

Web links

  • Nobili in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
  • Nobili on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

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