Steeds (moon craters)

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Steeds
Rosse (moon equatorial region)
Steeds
position 17.96 °  S , 34.96 °  O coordinates: 17 ° 57 '36 "  S , 34 ° 57' 36"  O
diameter 11 km
depth 2420 m
Card sheet 97 (PDF)
Type ALC
Named after William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800–1867)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Rosse is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater to the east of the front of the moon , in the Mare Nectaris plain , northeast of the Fracastorius crater .

List of side craters of Rosse
Letter position diameter link
C. 18.56 °  S , 34.41 °  O 4 km [1]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Irish astronomer William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse .

Web links

  • Rosse in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
  • Rosse 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 .