Rust (moon crater)

rust

Grate with side craters ( LROC -WAC)

position

56.42 ° S , 33.93 ° W Coordinates: 56 ° 25 '12 " S , 33 ° 55' 48" W.

diameter

47 km

depth

2460 m

Card sheet

125 (PDF)

Named after

Johann Leonhard Rost (1688–1727)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

46.85

Rost is an impact crater in the south of the front of the moon , southeast of the Schiller crater and northwest of Scheiner . The crater appears deepened in a plateau, the crater rim only moderately eroded and the crater floor level.

List of side craters of rust
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	56.6 ° S , 36.91 ° WMoon -56.6 -36.91	44 km	[1]
B.	54.69 ° S , 36.35 ° WMoon -54.69 -36.35	20 km	[2]
D.	56.63 ° S , 31.05 ° WMoon -56.63 -31.05	31 km	[3]
M.	55.5 ° S , 31.61 ° WMoon -55.5 -31.61	27 km	[4]
N	57.29 ° S , 33.31 ° WMoon -57.29 -33.31	6 km	[5]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Johann Leonhard Rost .

Web links

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

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