Oenopides (moon crater)
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| Oenopides and Markov ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 57.17 ° N , 64.17 ° W | |
| diameter | 73 km | |
| depth | 1380 m | |
| Card sheet | 10 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Oinopides (5th century BC) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Oenopides is an impact crater on the northwestern edge of the lunar front . It is located on the northern edge of the Oceanus Procellarum , northwest of the Sinus Roris , between the Markov craters in the south and Pythagoras in the north. The inside of the crater is flat with smaller craters, the wall is moderately eroded.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| B. | 58.67 ° N , 68.74 ° W | 37 km | [1] |
| K | 55.83 ° N , 61.16 ° W | 6 km | [2] |
| L. | 55.54 ° N , 61.82 ° W | 9 km | [3] |
| M. | 55.47 ° N , 61 ° W | 6 km | [4] |
| R. | 55.57 ° N , 67.88 ° W | 62 km | [5] |
| S. | 58.17 ° N , 70.1 ° W | 7 km | [6] |
| T | 57.25 ° N , 68.76 ° W | 7 km | [7] |
| X | 57.63 ° N , 63.14 ° W | 5 km | [8th] |
| Y | 57.01 ° N , 63.46 ° W | 6 km | [9] |
| Z | 58.99 ° N , 67.04 ° W | 7 km | [10] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Greek mathematician Oinopides .
Web links
- Oenopides in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Oenopides 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 .