Petavius (moon crater)
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Petavius (top left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 25.42 ° S , 60.76 ° O | |
diameter | 184 km | |
depth | 3330 m | |
Card sheet | 98 (PDF) | |
Named after | Denis Pétau (1583–1652) | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Petavius is an impact crater on the moon . It is located on the south-eastern edge of the Mare Fecunditatis , south of Langrenus and north of Furnerius . With a diameter of more than 180 km, Petavius is a large crater with a pronounced, terraced wall and central mountain . It belongs to the floor-fractured crater type and was assigned to class I by Peter H. Schultz. The magma penetrating inside the crater caused several fractures, the so-called Rimae Petavius or Petavius grooves , a system of lunar grooves with three prominent main grooves.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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A. | 26.15 ° S , 61.63 ° O | 6 km | [1] |
B. | 19.92 ° S , 56.99 ° E | 32 km | [2] |
C. | 27.71 ° S , 59.92 ° O | 11 km | [3] |
D. | 24.07 ° S , 64.32 ° O | 20 km | [4] |
The crater was named by the IAU in 1935 after the French Jesuit Denis Pétau .
Web links
- Petavius in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Petavius on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum .de: amateur recordings [5] [6]
Individual evidence
- ↑ PH Schultz: Floor-fractured lunar craters. In: The Moon. 15, 1976, ISSN 0027-0903 , pp. 241-273, here p. 242, doi : 10.1007 / BF00562240 .