Saussure (moon crater)
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| Saussure (bottom left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 43.43 ° S , 3.95 ° W | |
| diameter | 55 km | |
| depth | 1880 m | |
| Card sheet | 112 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–1799) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Saussure is an impact crater to the south of the lunar front , south of Mare Nubium , east of Tycho crater and southwest of Nasireddin . The crater is heavily eroded, the interior largely flat.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 43.81 ° S , 0.65 ° W | 18 km | [1] |
| B. | 42.27 ° S , 4.13 ° W | 5 km | [2] |
| C. | 44.86 ° S , 0.76 ° W | 17 km | [3] |
| CA | 45.28 ° S , 0.7 ° W | 19 km | [4] |
| D. | 46.99 ° S , 0.04 ° O | 19 km | [5] |
| E. | 44.68 ° S , 2.27 ° W | 11 km | [6] |
| F. | 44.34 ° S , 4.73 ° W | 4 km | [7] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Geneva naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure .
Web links
- Saussure in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Saussure 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 .