Pons (moon crater)

Pons
Pons (middle left) with Rupes Altai ( LROC -WAC)
position	25.45 °  S , 21.55 °  E Coordinates: 25 ° 27 '0 "  S , 21 ° 33' 0"  E
diameter	40 km
depth	1960 m
Card sheet	96 (PDF)
Named after	Jean-Louis Pons (1761-1831)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Pons is an impact crater on the front of the moon west of the Mare Nectaris , southeast of the Fermat crater and southwest of Polybius , west of the Rupes Altai . The crater is very heavily eroded and in its eastern part the crater wall is almost completely leveled and overlaid.

List of minor craters of Pons

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	27.38 °  S , 20.03 °  E	12 km	[1]
B.	28.78 °  S , 20.7 °  E	13 km	[2]
C.	27.97 °  S , 22.3 °  E	18 km	[3]
D.	25.56 °  S , 22.07 °  O	14 km	[4]
E.	25.9 °  S , 23.71 °  E	18 km	[5]
F.	23.8 °  S , 21.12 °  E	11 km	[6]
G	28.4 °  S , 21.32 °  E	6 km	[7]
H	27.02 °  S , 22.23 °  E	10 km	[8th]
J	24.91 °  S , 22.04 °  O	6 km	[9]
K	27.42 °  S , 22.73 °  E	7 km	[10]
L.	27.55 °  S , 20.86 °  E	8 kilometers	[11]
M.	27.2 °  S , 24.05 °  E	10 km	[12]
N	26 °  S , 22.9 °  E	6 km	[13]
P	24.97 °  S , 23.03 °  E	5 km	[14]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons .

Web links

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