Puiseux (moon crater)
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| Puiseux (top right) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 27.83 ° S , 39.2 ° W | |
| diameter | 24 km | |
| depth | 340 m | |
| Card sheet | 93 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Pierre Puiseux (1855-1928) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Puiseux is a 24 km large impact crater in the southwest quadrant of the front of the moon . It is located south of the Mare Humorum plain , east of the larger Doppelmayer crater and northwest of Vitello .
The crater is almost completely flooded by the lavas of the Mare , so that only a remnant of the rim is visible (see also ghost crater ).
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 26.54 ° S , 39.84 ° W | 3 km | [1] |
| B. | 25.71 ° S , 39.01 ° W | 4 km | [2] |
| C. | 24.7 ° S , 37.93 ° W | 3 km | [3] |
| D. | 25.75 ° S , 36.27 ° W | 7 km | [4] |
| F. | 23.42 ° S , 38.93 ° W | 4 km | [5] |
| G | 28.27 ° S , 37.9 ° W | 3 km | [6] |
| H | 27.41 ° S , 37.12 ° W | 4 km | [7] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French astronomer Pierre Puiseux , the second author of the Paris lunar atlas from 1896 and 1910. The lunar crater of the same size named after the main author, Loewy, is located on the opposite edge of the Mare Humorum.
Web links
- Puiseux in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Puiseux 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 .