Regnault (moon crater)

Regnault

Regnault, west of Volta ( LROC -WAC)

position

54.08 ° N , 87.8 ° W Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 48 ″ N , 87 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W.

diameter

45 km

depth

2520 m

Card sheet

21 (PDF)

Named after

Henri Victor Regnault (1810–1878)

Named since

1935

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

45.38

Regnault is a relatively small impact crater on the extreme western edge of the front of the moon , which is why it is sometimes invisible due to the libration and, if visible from the earth, then strongly distorted. It lies west of the Oceanus Procellarum , west of the Volta crater , the rim of which it partially covers. To the south it touches the rim of the Stokes crater . The interior is flat, the rim of the crater moderately eroded.

List of Regnault's secondary craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
C.	55.08 ° N , 89.06 ° WMoon 55.08 -89.06	14 km	[1]
W.	53.38 ° N , 89.75 ° WMoon 53.38 -89.75	14 km	[2]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the French physicist Henri Victor Regnault .

Web links

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