Palisa (moon crater)

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Palisa
Palisa (moon equatorial region)
Palisa
position 9.47 °  S , 7.26 °  W Coordinates: 9 ° 28 '12 "  S , 7 ° 15' 36"  W.
diameter 33 km
depth 540 m
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Named after Johann Palisa (1848–1925)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Palisa is an impact crater on the front of the moon on the eastern edge of Mare Cognitum , west of Ptolemaeus crater and east of Davy . The crater is heavily eroded, the planar interior opens to the south of the crater level of Davy Y .

List of minor craters of Palisa
Letter position diameter link
A. 9.06 °  S , 6.79 °  W 4 km [1]
C. 7.73 °  S , 6.52 °  W 8 kilometers [2]
D. 8.69 °  S , 6.96 °  W 7 km [3]
E. 8.48 °  S , 5.77 °  W 20 km [4]
P 9.7 °  S , 7.42 °  W 4 km [5]
T 8.27 °  S , 8.28 °  W 12 km [6]
W. 9.1 °  S , 6.38 °  W 4 km [7]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa .

Web links

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