Schmidt (moon crater)
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| Schmidt (bottom left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 0.92 ° N , 18.74 ° E | |
| diameter | 11 km | |
| depth | 2310 m | |
| Card sheet | 60 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after |
Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825–1884), Bernhard Schmidt (1879–1935), Otto Juljewitsch Schmidt (1891–1956) |
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| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Schmidt is a small impact crater on the front of the moon on the edge of Mare Tranquillitatis , south of Ritter and west of Sabine . It is bowl-shaped and hardly eroded.
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt , the German optician Bernhard Schmidt and the Russian astronomer Otto Juljewitsch Schmidt .
Web links
- Schmidt in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Schmidt 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 .