Petavius ​​(moon crater)

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Petavius
Petavius ​​+ Hase + Adams + Legendre - LROC - WAC.JPG
Petavius ​​(top left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)
Petavius ​​(moon equatorial region)
Petavius
position 25.42 °  S , 60.76 °  O coordinates: 25 ° 25 '12 "  S , 60 ° 45' 36"  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

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Petavius ​​with Rimae Petavius ​​( Lunar Orbiter 4 )

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.

List of Petavius' minor craters
Letter position diameter link
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

Individual evidence

  1. PH Schultz: Floor-fractured lunar craters. In: The Moon. 15, 1976, ISSN  0027-0903 , pp. 241-273, here p. 242, doi : 10.1007 / BF00562240 .