Palisa (moon crater)

Palisa

position

9.47 ° S , 7.26 ° W Coordinates: 9 ° 28 '12 " S , 7 ° 15' 36" 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

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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 ° WMoon -9.06 -6.79	4 km	[1]
C.	7.73 ° S , 6.52 ° WMoon -7.73 -6.52	8 kilometers	[2]
D.	8.69 ° S , 6.96 ° WMoon -8.69 -6.96	7 km	[3]
E.	8.48 ° S , 5.77 ° WMoon -8.48 -5.77	20 km	[4]
P	9.7 ° S , 7.42 ° WMoon -9.7 -7.42	4 km	[5]
T	8.27 ° S , 8.28 ° WMoon -8.27 -8.28	12 km	[6]
W.	9.1 ° S , 6.38 ° WMoon -9.1 -6.38	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

^ 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 .