Poisson (moon crater)

Poisson
position	30.39 °  S , 10.52 °  E Coordinates: 30 ° 23 '24 "  S , 10 ° 31' 12"  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.

List of Poisson minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
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

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