Pentland (moon crater)
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| Pentland ( Lunar Orbiter 4 ) | ||
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| position | 64.56 ° S , 11.34 ° O | |
| diameter | 56 km | |
| depth | 4010 m | |
| Card sheet | 138 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797–1873) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Pentland is an impact crater in the extreme south of the lunar front , southeast of Zach crater and northeast of Curtius . The rim of the crater is eroded, the interior largely level with a small central mountain .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 67.3 ° S , 13.06 ° E | 44 km | [1] |
| B. | 66.19 ° S , 13.83 ° E | 28 km | [2] |
| C. | 65.04 ° S , 16.33 ° O | 34 km | [3] |
| D. | 63.21 ° S , 13.88 ° O | 31 km | [4] |
| THERE | 62.94 ° S , 14.22 ° O | 52 km | [5] |
| E. | 68.08 ° S , 13.2 ° E | 11 km | [6] |
| F. | 62.14 ° S , 11.24 ° E | 12 km | [7] |
| J | 64.54 ° S , 14.52 ° O | 8 kilometers | [8th] |
| K | 66.92 ° S , 17.7 ° E | 12 km | [9] |
| L. | 65.82 ° S , 17.59 ° O | 24 km | [10] |
| M. | 64.56 ° S , 16.94 ° O | 6 km | [11] |
| N | 63.67 ° S , 17.09 ° O | 24 km | [12] |
| O | 63.27 ° S , 18.44 ° E | 14 km | [13] |
| P | 67.84 ° S , 14.28 ° O | 8 kilometers | [14] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Irish geographer Joseph Barclay Pentland .
Web links
- Pentland in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Pentland 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 .