Oersted (moon crater)

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Oersted
Hercules + Atlas - LROC - WAC.JPG
Oersted, right below Atlas and Hercules ( LROC -WAC)
Oersted (moon equatorial region)
Oersted
position 43.1 °  N , 47.24 °  E Coordinates: 43 ° 6 '0 "  N , 47 ° 14' 24"  E
diameter 41 km
depth 940 m
Card sheet 27 (PDF)
Named after Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Oersted is an impact crater on the northeastern front of the moon . It is located southeast of the large Atlas crater . The crater is relatively inconspicuous as the rim of the crater is very heavily eroded and almost leveled.

List of minor craters from Oersted
Letter position diameter link
A. 43.32 °  N , 47.13 °  E 7 km [1]
P 43.53 °  N , 45.92 °  O 21 km [2]
U 42.38 °  N , 44.68 °  E 4 km [3]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted .

Web links

Individual evidence

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