Rayleigh (moon crater)

Rayleigh

position

29.07 ° N , 89.25 ° O coordinates: 29 ° 4 '12 " N , 89 ° 15' 0" O

diameter

114 km

depth

1070 m

Card sheet

45 (PDF)

Named after

John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842-1919)

Named since

1964

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

113.77

Rayleigh is an impact crater on the eastern edge of the front of the moon , which is why it is only visible in a strongly distorted manner from Earth, if at all. It is north of Lyapunov crater and northeast of Urey . The crater wall is very badly eroded and partially almost completely disappeared and superimposed.

List of Rayleigh minor craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	Renamed to Urey
B.	29.05 ° N , 88.45 ° OMoon 29.05 88.45	15 km	[1]
C.	31.44 ° N , 85.73 ° OMoon 31.44 85.73	28 km	[2]
D.	29.01 ° N , 89.73 ° OMoon 01/29 89.73	22 km	[3]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1964 after the British physicist John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh .

Web links

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