Repsold (moon crater)

Repsold
Repsold with environment ( LROC -WAC)
position	51.27 °  N , 78.4 °  W Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 12 "  N , 78 ° 24 ′ 0"  W
diameter	109 km
depth	1930 m
Card sheet	10 (PDF)
Named after	Johann Georg Repsold (1770-1830)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Repsold is an impact crater on the extreme western edge of the front of the moon , so it is sometimes invisible as a result of the libration and, when visible from Earth, is strongly distorted. It is located on the western edge of Oceanus Procellarum , southeast of Volta crater and east of Galvani . The western edge is from the secondary craters Repsold G covers.

Groove system of the Rimae Repsold (image from Lunar Orbiter 4 )

The crater floor is reasonably flat, apart from a system of lunar grooves , the Rimae Repsold . The most prominent of these grooves runs through the crater from northeast to southwest, runs across Repsold G and ends in Galvani crater. With its fracture system, Repsold belongs to the floor-fractured crater type (class V).

List of Repsold's minor craters

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	51.83 °  N , 76.94 °  W	8 kilometers	[1]
B.	53.07 °  N , 75.9 °  W	45 km	[2]
C.	48.67 °  N , 73.7 °  W	135 km	[3]
G	50.55 °  N , 80.6 °  W	44 km	[4]
H	51.69 °  N , 81.45 °  W	13 km	[5]
N	49.04 °  N , 78.25 °  W	15 km	[6]
R.	49.84 °  N , 72.37 °  W	12 km	[7]
S.	47.75 °  N , 75.31 °  W	9 km	[8th]
T	47.63 °  N , 79.92 °  W	13 km	[9]
V	50.79 °  N , 75.39 °  W	7 km	[10]
W.	52.6 °  N , 79.83 °  W	9 km	[11]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German inventor Johann Georg Repsold .

Web links

• Repsold in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Repsold on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .