Palisa (moon crater)
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position | 9.47 ° S , 7.26 ° W | |
diameter | 33 km | |
depth | 540 m | |
Card sheet | 77 (PDF) | |
Named after | Johann Palisa (1848–1925) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
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 .
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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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
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .