Scheele (moon crater)
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| position | 9.46 ° S , 37.87 ° W | |
| diameter | 5 km | |
| depth | 760 m | |
| Card sheet | 75 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786) | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Scheele is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater on the front of the moon in the plain of Oceanus Procellarum south of the Wichmann crater and northwest of Herigonius .
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1976 after the German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele .
Web links
- Scheele in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Scheele 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 .