Pallas (moon crater)
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| Pallas is the smaller left crater with the central mountain. Taken with an amateur telescope. | ||
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| position | 5.42 ° N , 1.69 ° W | |
| diameter | 46 km | |
| depth | 1500 m | |
| Card sheet | 59 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Pallas is an impact crater on the front of the moon between Sinus Aestuum and Sinus Medii , west of the Murchison crater , the wall of which it partially covers. The crater is badly eroded. The interior has a central mountain .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 5.95 ° N , 2.38 ° W | 10 km | [1] |
| B. | 4.18 ° N , 2.66 ° W | 3 km | [2] |
| C. | 4.47 ° N , 1.14 ° W | 6 km | [3] |
| D. | 2.36 ° N , 2.67 ° W | 5 km | [4] |
| E. | 4.01 ° N , 1.48 ° W | 25 km | [5] |
| F. | 3.5 ° N , 1.4 ° W | 18 km | [6] |
| H | 4.62 ° N , 1.62 ° W | 5 km | [7] |
| N | 7 ° N , 0.47 ° E | 5 km | [8th] |
| V | 1.65 ° N , 1.63 ° W | 3 km | [9] |
| W. | 3.59 ° N , 1.27 ° W | 3 km | [10] |
| X | 5.13 ° N , 3.26 ° W | 3 km | [11] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU after Peter Simon Pallas in 1935 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .