Oken (moon crater)

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Oken ( Lunar Orbiter 4 )

position

43.84 ° S , 76.06 ° O coordinates: 43 ° 50 '24 " S , 76 ° 3' 36" O

diameter

79 km

depth

2550 m

Card sheet

115 (PDF)

Named after

Lorenz Oken (1779-1851)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

78.67

Oken is an impact crater on the southeastern edge of the moon's front , southeast of Furnerius crater and south of Humboldt . The crater rim is little eroded, the interior is flooded by lava and flat.

List of Oken minor craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	43.33 ° S , 71.39 ° OMoon -43.33 71.39	35 km	[1]
E.	46.24 ° S , 79.22 ° OMoon -46.24 79.22	12 km	[2]
F.	44.53 ° S , 71.37 ° OMoon -44.53 71.37	23 km	[3]
L.	42.82 ° S , 78.08 ° OMoon -42.82 August 78	9 km	[4]
M.	41.81 ° S , 75.45 ° OMoon -41.81 75.45	8 kilometers	[5]
N	42.59 ° S , 74.6 ° EMoon -42.59 74.6	38 km	[6]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German naturalist Lorenz Oken .

Web links

Commons : Oken (moon crater) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Oken in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Oken 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 .