Pons (moon crater)
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Pons (middle left) with Rupes Altai ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 25.45 ° S , 21.55 ° 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.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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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
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .