Riccioli (moon crater)
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| Riccioli and Grimaldi ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 2.9 ° S , 74.37 ° W | |
| diameter | 156 km | |
| Card sheet | 73 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Giovanni Riccioli (1598–1671) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Riccioli is a 150 km large whale plain on the western edge of the moon. It borders the large Grimaldi impact basin and, like this, is partly covered by dark, basaltic lava .
The floor of the whale plain is not smooth, but rather well structured. To the southeast run three parallel grooves , the Rimae Riccioli .
Riccioli forms an equilateral triangle at the edge of the Oceanus Procellarum with the almost equally large craters Grimaldi and Hevelius .
The crater is named after the Italian Jesuit and astronomer Giovanni Riccioli .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| C. | 0.58 ° N , 73.18 ° W | 30 km | [1] |
| CA | 0.63 ° N , 73.13 ° W | 14 km | [2] |
| F. | 8.73 ° S , 73.86 ° W | 30 km | [3] |
| G | 1.27 ° S , 71.11 ° W | 15 km | [4] |
| H | 1.13 ° N , 75.01 ° W | 18 km | [5] |
| K | 2.3 ° S , 77.56 ° W | 41 km | [6] |
| U | 5.8 ° S , 72.92 ° W | 8 kilometers | [7] |
| Y | 3.05 ° S , 73.32 ° W | 7 km | [8th] |
literature
- Antonín Rükl : Moon, Mars, Venus. Pocket atlas of the closest celestial bodies . Artaria Publishing House, Prague 1977
Web links
- Riccioli in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Grimaldi and Riccioli craters in the Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon
