Purbach (moon crater)

Purbach

Purbach and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)

position

25.57 ° S , 2.03 ° W Coordinates: 25 ° 34 '12 " S , 2 ° 1' 48" 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

119.27

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.

List of secondary craters of Purbach
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	26.18 ° S , 2 ° WMoon -26.18 -2	7 km	[1]
B.	27 ° S , 4.31 ° WMoon -27 -4.31	17 km	[2]
C.	27.75 ° S , 4.68 ° WMoon -27.75 -4.68	18 km	[3]
D.	22.9 ° S , 1.63 ° WMoon -22.9 -1.63	11 km	[4]
E.	21.69 ° S , 0.79 ° WMoon -21.69 -0.79	24 km	[5]
F.	24.63 ° S , 0.09 ° WMoon -24.63 -0.09	9 km	[6]
G	23.99 ° S , 2.84 ° WMoon -23.99 -2.84	27 km	[7]
H	25.53 ° S , 5.72 ° WMoon -25.53 -5.72	29 km	[8th]
J	27.56 ° S , 4.02 ° WMoon -27.56 -4.02	11 km	[9]
K	25.23 ° S , 4.63 ° WMoon -25.23 -4.63	8 kilometers	[10]
L.	25.11 ° S , 5.04 ° WMoon -25.11 -5.04	17 km	[11]
M.	24.88 ° S , 4.55 ° WMoon -24.88 -4.55	15 km	[12]
N	26.31 ° S , 5.46 ° WMoon -26.31 -5.46	7 km	[13]
O	24.82 ° S , 3.93 ° WMoon -24.82 -3.93	5 km	[14]
P	26.52 ° S , 3.78 ° WMoon -26.52 -3.78	5 km	[15]
Q	25.94 ° S , 0.12 ° WMoon -25.94 -0.12	4 km	[16]
R.	26.55 ° S , 3.32 ° WMoon -26.55 -3.32	4 km	[17]
S.	27.29 ° S , 2.35 ° WMoon -27.29 -2.35	8 kilometers	[18]
T	24.7 ° S , 0.99 ° WMoon -24.7 -0.99	5 km	[19]
U	27.03 ° S , 2.12 ° WMoon -27.03 -2.12	15 km	[20]
V	26.77 ° S , 0.42 ° WMoon -26.77 -0.42	6 km	[21]
W.	25.48 ° S , 2.34 ° WMoon -25.48 -2.34	20 km	[22]
X	25.43 ° S , 1.25 ° WMoon -25.43 -1.25	3 km	[23]
Y	25.86 ° S , 6.94 ° WMoon -25.86 -6.94	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 .

[1] John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .