Piazzi Smyth (moon crater)
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| Piazzi Smyth with Mons Piton and side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 41.9 ° N , 3.28 ° W | |
| diameter | 13 km | |
| Card sheet | 25 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Piazzi Smyth is a small impact crater on the northern front of the moon in the Mare Imbrium plain . In the southeast lies the Mons Piton , in the east the edge of the Mare Imbrium with the Montes Alpes and the Cassini crater . In the south is Aristillus and in the southwest the small crater Kirch . The crater is bowl-shaped and the rim is only slightly eroded.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| B. | 40.51 ° N , 3.39 ° W | 4 km | [1] |
| M. | 45.07 ° N , 4.27 ° W | 2 km | [2] |
| U | 40.86 ° N , 2.79 ° W | 3 km | [3] |
| V | 40.9 ° N , 4.79 ° W | 8 kilometers | [4] |
| W. | 42.24 ° N , 1.89 ° W | 3 km | [5] |
| Y | 42.83 ° N , 3.47 ° W | 4 km | [6] |
| Z | 42.13 ° N , 4.61 ° W | 3 km | [7] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Scottish astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth .
Web links
- Piazzi Smyth in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Piazzi Smyth on The-Moon Wiki