Opelt (moon crater)

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Opelt
Opelt (moon equatorial region)
Opelt
position 16.35 °  S , 17.69 °  W Coordinates: 16 ° 21 ′ 0 "  S , 17 ° 41 ′ 24"  W
diameter 49 km
depth 280 m
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Named after Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt (1794–1863), Otto Moritz Opelt (1829–1912)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Opelt is an impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon in the north of the Mare Nubium plain , northeast of the Bullialdus crater and north of Gould .

The crater is almost completely flooded by the lavas of the Mare and only a remnant of the crater rim is visible.

List of Opelt's secondary craters
Letter position diameter link
E. 17.07 °  S , 17.96 °  W 8 kilometers [1]
F. 18.11 °  S , 18.85 °  W 4 km [2]
G 16.86 °  S , 17.34 °  W 4 km [3]
H 15.84 °  S , 17.39 °  W 3 km [4]
K 13.63 °  S , 17.14 °  W 5 km [5]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Opelt . In November 2012, the son Otto Moritz Opelt (1829–1912) was added according to the original name of Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt .

Web links

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