Petermann (moon crater)

Petermann

Petermann and Cusanus with side craters (north above; LROC -WAC)

position

74.37 ° N , 67.74 ° O coordinates: 74 ° 22 '12 " N , 67 ° 44' 24" O

diameter

73 km

depth

3330 m

Card sheet

5 (PDF)

Named after

August Petermann (1822–1878)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

73.16

Petermann is an impact crater on the northeastern edge of the front of the moon . It lies north of the Cusanus crater and east of Baillaud (moon crater) . On the west by Petermann then there is the much larger but highly eroded craters Petermann R . Petermann's crater walls are somewhat eroded and still show terraces. The crater floor is flat without a central mountain .

List of Petermann's minor craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	74.8 ° N , 87.64 ° OMoon 74.8 87.64	20 km	[1]
B.	72.77 ° N , 63.86 ° OMoon 72.77 63.86	10 km	[2]
C.	71.5 ° N , 57.25 ° OMoon 71.5 57.25	13 km	[3]
D.	77.11 ° N , 66.11 ° OMoon 77.11 66.11	30 km	[4]
E.	72.46 ° N , 53.17 ° OMoon 72.46 53.17	15 km	[5]
R.	74.82 ° N , 55.5 ° EMoon 74.82 55.5	118 km	[6]
S.	75.29 ° N , 61.94 ° OMoon 75.29 61.94	9 km	[7]
X	75 ° N , 76.13 ° OMoon 75 76.13	9 km	[8th]
Y	75.7 ° N , 85.6 ° EMoon 75.7 85.6	11 km	[9]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German geographer August Petermann . The name was introduced by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt .

Web links

Petermann in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Petermann on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

^ Ewen A. Whitaker: Mapping and Naming the Moon. A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2003, ISBN 0-521-54414-9 , p. 224.

[1] Ewen A. Whitaker: Mapping and Naming the Moon. A History of Lunar Cartography and Nomenclature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2003, ISBN 0-521-54414-9 , p. 224.