Rayleigh (moon crater)
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position | 29.07 ° N , 89.25 ° 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 |
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.
Letter | position | diameter | link | |
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A. | Renamed to Urey | |||
B. | 29.05 ° N , 88.45 ° O | 15 km | [1] | |
C. | 31.44 ° N , 85.73 ° O | 28 km | [2] | |
D. | 29.01 ° N , 89.73 ° O | 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 .