Poncelet (moon crater)
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| Poncelet with its side craters (north above; LROC- WAC) | ||
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| position | 75.93 ° N , 54.5 ° W | |
| diameter | 68 km | |
| depth | 1180 m | |
| Card sheet | 2 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867) | |
| Named since | 1964 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Poncelet is an impact crater on the moon . It is east of Pascal and northwest of Anaximenes . The depth is given as 1,180 m.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 79.56 ° N , 75.55 ° W | 31 km | [1] |
| B. | 78.34 ° N , 63.52 ° W | 15 km | [2] |
| C. | 77.58 ° N , 74.48 ° W | 68 km | [3] |
| D. | 77.75 ° N , 70.7 ° W | 23 km | [4] |
| H | 75.81 ° N , 55.69 ° W | 7 km | [5] |
| P | 80.66 ° N , 61.5 ° W | 16 km | [6] |
| Q | 79.92 ° N , 60.52 ° W | 14 km | [7] |
| R. | 79.34 ° N , 58.07 ° W | 9 km | [8th] |
| S. | 78.71 ° N , 56.91 ° W | 10 km | [9] |
The crater was named by the IAU in 1964 after the French mathematician and engineer Jean-Victor Poncelet .
Web links
- Poncelet in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Poncelet 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 .