Pitiscus (moon crater)

Pitiscus
Pitiscus ( LROC -WAC)
position	50.66 °  S , 30.55 °  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 36 ″  S , 30 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  E
diameter	82 km
depth	4630 m
Card sheet	127 (PDF)
Named after	Bartholomäus Pitiscus (1561-1613)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Pitiscus is an impact crater to the south of the lunar front , southwest of the great Janssen crater and northwest of Vlacq . The rim of the crater is hardly eroded, the interior is largely flat, apart from the two secondary craters A and E.

List of side craters of Pitiscus

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	50.39 °  S , 30.89 °  O	10 km	[1]
B.	47.8 °  S , 30.37 °  O	23 km	[2]
C.	47.4 °  S , 28.24 °  O	15 km	[3]
D.	49.11 °  S , 26.53 °  E	20 km	[4]
E.	51.12 °  S , 29.15 °  E	21 km	[5]
F.	47.01 °  S , 29.4 °  E	12 km	[6]
G	47.72 °  S , 25.2 °  E	15 km	[7]
J	48.26 °  S , 26.41 °  E	7 km	[8th]
K	46.43 °  S , 29.8 °  E	16 km	[9]
L.	51.28 °  S , 33.56 °  E	8 kilometers	[10]
R.	48.75 °  S , 28.26 °  E	23 km	[11]
S.	47.78 °  S , 27.63 °  E	23 km	[12]
T	47.1 °  S , 27.9 °  E	8 kilometers	[13]
U	49.05 °  S , 33.25 °  E	5 km	[14]
V	49.43 °  S , 34.29 °  O	5 km	[15]
W.	50.42 °  S , 27.65 °  E	24 km	[16]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after mathematician Bartholomäus Pitiscus .

Web links

• Pitiscus in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Pitiscus 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 .