Palmieri (moon crater)
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| position | 28.62 ° S , 47.77 ° W | |
| diameter | 39 km | |
| depth | 970 m | |
| Card sheet | 93 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Luigi Palmieri (1807-1896) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Palmieri is an impact crater in the southwest of the lunar front , southwest of the Mare Humorum , west of the Doppelmayer crater and south of Mersenius . The crater rim is heavily eroded with an opening in the southeast. The largely flat interior of the crater is crossed by the two main grooves of the Rimae Palmieri .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 32.27 ° S , 48.53 ° W | 20 km | [1] |
| B. | 30.87 ° S , 48.31 ° W | 10 km | [2] |
| E. | 29.25 ° S , 48.63 ° W | 14 km | [3] |
| G | 32.59 ° S , 47.79 ° W | 9 km | [4] |
| H | 31.63 ° S , 47.79 ° W | 19 km | [5] |
| J | 33.68 ° S , 49.43 ° W | 10 km | [6] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian meteorologist, seismologist and volcanologist Luigi Palmieri .
Web links
- Palmieri in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Palmieri 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 .