Purbach (moon crater)
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Purbach and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 25.57 ° S , 2.03 ° W | |
diameter | 119 km | |
depth | 2980 m | |
Card sheet | 95 (PDF) | |
Named after | Georg von Peuerbach (1423–1461) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Purbach is an extensive impact crater in the southwest of the lunar front , east of Mare Nubium , south of Thebit crater and north of Regiomontanus .
The rim of the crater is heavily eroded, the interior largely flat.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 26.18 ° S , 2 ° W | 7 km | [1] |
B. | 27 ° S , 4.31 ° W | 17 km | [2] |
C. | 27.75 ° S , 4.68 ° W | 18 km | [3] |
D. | 22.9 ° S , 1.63 ° W | 11 km | [4] |
E. | 21.69 ° S , 0.79 ° W | 24 km | [5] |
F. | 24.63 ° S , 0.09 ° W | 9 km | [6] |
G | 23.99 ° S , 2.84 ° W | 27 km | [7] |
H | 25.53 ° S , 5.72 ° W | 29 km | [8th] |
J | 27.56 ° S , 4.02 ° W | 11 km | [9] |
K | 25.23 ° S , 4.63 ° W | 8 kilometers | [10] |
L. | 25.11 ° S , 5.04 ° W | 17 km | [11] |
M. | 24.88 ° S , 4.55 ° W | 15 km | [12] |
N | 26.31 ° S , 5.46 ° W | 7 km | [13] |
O | 24.82 ° S , 3.93 ° W | 5 km | [14] |
P | 26.52 ° S , 3.78 ° W | 5 km | [15] |
Q | 25.94 ° S , 0.12 ° W | 4 km | [16] |
R. | 26.55 ° S , 3.32 ° W | 4 km | [17] |
S. | 27.29 ° S , 2.35 ° W | 8 kilometers | [18] |
T | 24.7 ° S , 0.99 ° W | 5 km | [19] |
U | 27.03 ° S , 2.12 ° W | 15 km | [20] |
V | 26.77 ° S , 0.42 ° W | 6 km | [21] |
W. | 25.48 ° S , 2.34 ° W | 20 km | [22] |
X | 25.43 ° S , 1.25 ° W | 3 km | [23] |
Y | 25.86 ° S , 6.94 ° W | 16 km | [24] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Austrian mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (also Georg Purbach ).
East of Purbach, at a moon age of around 6.7 days, shortly before reaching the first quarter of the moon , the visual effect Lunar X can be observed on the moon terminator .
Web links
- Purbach in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Purbach 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 .