Reiner (moon crater)
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| Reiner, Reiner Gamma and Marius ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 6.91 ° N , 54.96 ° W | |
| diameter | 29 km | |
| depth | 2960 m | |
| Card sheet | 56 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Vincentio Reinieri († 1648). | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Reiner is an impact crater on the western front of the moon in the plane of Oceanus Procellarum . It lies east of Cavalerius and southwest of Marius . The edge is sharp and hardly eroded. The interior has a central mountain . West of Reiner is Reiner Gamma , an area with a remarkably high albedo .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 5.11 ° N , 51.5 ° W | 10 km | [1] |
| C. | 3.49 ° N , 51.51 ° W | 7 km | [2] |
| E. | 1.88 ° N , 49.63 ° W | 4 km | [3] |
| G | 3.21 ° N , 54.33 ° W | 3 km | [4] |
| H | 9.09 ° N , 54.76 ° W | 8 kilometers | [5] |
| K | 8.09 ° N , 53.98 ° W | 3 km | [6] |
| L. | 7.96 ° N , 54.65 ° W | 5 km | [7] |
| M. | 8.61 ° N , 56.24 ° W | 3 km | [8th] |
| N | 5.35 ° N , 57.59 ° W | 4 km | [9] |
| Q | 1.36 ° N , 50.91 ° W | 3 km | [10] |
| R. | 3.66 ° N , 55.67 ° W | 46 km | [11] |
| S. | 2.24 ° N , 50.82 ° W | 4 km | [12] |
| T | 3.67 ° N , 52.3 ° W | 3 km | [13] |
| U | 4.09 ° N , 52.56 ° W | 3 km | [14] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian astronomer and mathematician Vincentio Reinieri .
Web links
- Reiner in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Reiner on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [15]
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .