Milichius (moon crater)
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| Milichius (top right) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 9.98 ° N , 30.25 ° W | |
| diameter | 12 km | |
| depth | 2520 m | |
| Card sheet | 57 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | Jakob Milich (1501–1559) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Milichius is a small impact crater on the western front of the moon in the plain of the Mare Insularum . It is northeast of the Kepler crater and west of the large Copernicus crater . The crater is bowl-shaped and the rim is hardly eroded.
To the west of the crater, the Rima Milichius moon groove runs in a north-south direction .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 9.24 ° N , 32.09 ° W | 9 km | [1] |
| C. | 11.18 ° N , 29.45 ° W | 3 km | [2] |
| D. | 7.95 ° N , 28.29 ° W | 3 km | [3] |
| E. | 10.6 ° N , 28.16 ° W | 3 km | [4] |
| K | 8.47 ° N , 30.41 ° W | 4 km | [5] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German mathematician and doctor Jakob Milich .
Web links
- Milichius in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Milichius 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 .