Piazzi (moon crater)
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position | 36.24 ° S , 68.02 ° W | |
diameter | 100 km | |
depth | 1620 m | |
Card sheet | 109 (PDF) | |
Named after | Giuseppe Piazzi (1746–1826) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Piazzi is an impact crater on the westernmost edge of the front of the moon , southeast of the Mare Orientale and southeast of the Lagrange crater , north of Inghirami .
The crater is heavily shaped and covered by the ejecta of the Mare Orientale, so that the rim of the crater is difficult to see.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 39.51 ° S , 66.76 ° W | 13 km | [1] |
B. | 37.54 ° S , 66.36 ° W | 8 kilometers | [2] |
C. | 37.17 ° S , 62.73 ° W | 28 km | [3] |
F. | 35.72 ° S , 61.15 ° W | 11 km | [4] |
G | 40.26 ° S , 64.78 ° W | 9 km | [5] |
H | 40.21 ° S , 65.76 ° W | 8 kilometers | [6] |
K | 37.44 ° S , 68.14 ° W | 7 km | [7] |
M. | 35.92 ° S , 67.55 ° W | 6 km | [8th] |
N | 35.47 ° S , 66.21 ° W | 16 km | [9] |
P | 38.76 ° S , 67.38 ° W | 19 km | [10] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .