Peters (moon crater)

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Peters
Lunar crater Peters.png
Location of Peters
Peters (Moon North Pole Region)
Peters
position 68.06 °  N , 29.39 °  O coordinates: 68 ° 3 '36 "  N , 29 ° 23' 24"  O
diameter 16 km
depth 500 m
Card sheet 4 (PDF)
Named after Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806–1880)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Peters is a small impact crater on the northeastern edge of the moon's front . It lies between the Neison and Arnold craters .

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Christian August Friedrich Peters .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .