Warrior (moon crater)
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| position | 29.01 ° N , 45.6 ° W | |
| diameter | 23 km | |
| depth | 950 m | |
| Card sheet | 39 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865–1902) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Krieger is an impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon in the plain of Oceanus Procellarum . It is located northwest of the great Aristarchus ray crater . From its northwestern edge goes a north-west running moon groove , the Rima warriors . The southern edge is covered by the smaller Van Biesbroeck crater . The rim of the crater is irregular and somewhat eroded.
| Letter | position | diameter | link | |
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| C. | 27.72 ° N , 44.7 ° W | 4 km | [1] | |
| D. | Renamed to Rocco | |||
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German draftsman and selenographer Johann Nepomuk Krieger .
Web links
- Warriors in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Warriors 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 .