Poisson (moon crater)
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position | 30.39 ° S , 10.52 ° E | |
diameter | 41 km | |
depth | 1730 m | |
Card sheet | 96 (PDF) | |
Named after | Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Poisson is an impact crater on the front of the moon , east of Aliacensis crater and southwest of Pontanus . The crater is very heavily eroded, the crater wall is often overlaid and in some cases can hardly be seen.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 29.78 ° S , 9.08 ° O | 17 km | [1] |
B. | 30.87 ° S , 10.84 ° E | 11 km | [2] |
C. | 33.12 ° S , 8.62 ° E | 23 km | [3] |
D. | 31.46 ° S , 7.65 ° E | 11 km | [4] |
E. | 34.2 ° S , 8.53 ° E | 13 km | [5] |
F. | 33.77 ° S , 7.93 ° E | 14 km | [6] |
G | 31.75 ° S , 7.32 ° E | 15 km | [7] |
H | 33.11 ° S , 7.34 ° E | 19 km | [8th] |
J | 35.06 ° S , 8.28 ° O | 27 km | [9] |
K | 32.72 ° S , 9.51 ° E | 13 km | [10] |
L. | 32.73 ° S , 8.12 ° O | 16 km | [11] |
M. | 33.98 ° S , 7.55 ° O | 7 km | [12] |
N | 30.79 ° S , 8.35 ° E | 4 km | [13] |
O | 35.08 ° S , 9.1 ° E | 5 km | [14] |
P | 31.95 ° S , 8.78 ° O | 7 km | [15] |
Q | 32.59 ° S , 10.11 ° O | 25 km | [16] |
R. | 30.07 ° S , 8.36 ° E | 5 km | [17] |
S. | 30.04 ° S , 11.39 ° O | 4 km | [18] |
T | 31.09 ° S , 9.18 ° O | 25 km | [19] |
U | 31.73 ° S , 10.27 ° E | 26 km | [20] |
V | 32.1 ° S , 10.52 ° E | 16 km | [21] |
W. | 29.66 ° S , 11.93 ° E | 3 km | [22] |
X | 29.08 ° S , 12.19 ° E | 5 km | [23] |
Z | 29.82 ° S , 10.7 ° E | 5 km | [24] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson .
Web links
- Poisson in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Poisson on The-Moon Wiki
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .