Pytheas (moon crater)

Pytheas
Pytheas with side craters ( LROC -WAC)
position	20.55 °  N , 20.6 °  W Coordinates: 20 ° 33 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  W.
diameter	20 km
depth	2540 m
Card sheet	40 (PDF)
Named after	Pytheas
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Pytheas is an impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon in the Mare Imbrium plain , south of Lambert and southeast of Euler .

List of minor craters from Pytheas

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	20.45 °  N , 21.75 °  W	6 km	[1]
B.	17.49 °  N , 19.4 °  W	4 km	[2]
C.	18.81 °  N , 19.14 °  W	4 km	[3]
D.	21.08 °  N , 20.56 °  W	5 km	[4]
E.	18.13 °  N , 19.13 °  W	4 km	[5]
F.	16.53 °  N , 19.15 °  W	5 km	[6]
G	21.62 °  N , 17.74 °  W	3 km	[7]
H	20.49 °  N , 16.54 °  W	3 km	[8th]
J	21.61 °  N , 21.21 °  W	3 km	[9]
K	19.9 °  N , 16.19 °  W	2 km	[10]
L.	18.61 °  N , 16.89 °  W	3 km	[11]
M.	19.89 °  N , 17.76 °  W	3 km	[12]
N	22.55 °  N , 20.52 °  W	3 km	[13]
U	21.77 °  N , 19.45 °  W	3 km	[14]
W.	21.69 °  N , 23.73 °  W	3 km	[15]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Greek geographer Pytheas .

Web links

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