South (moon crater)
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| South with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 57.83 ° N , 51.04 ° W | |
| diameter | 100 km | |
| depth | 970 m | |
| Card sheet | 10 (PDF) | |
| Named after | James South (1785-1867) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
South is an impact crater on the northwestern edge of the lunar front . It lies on the northern edge of the Sinus Roris , a bulge of the Oceanus Procellarum . The northwestern edge overlaps the Wall level of Babbage . The edge is badly eroded and almost completely leveled in the south.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 57.26 ° N , 50.35 ° W | 6 km | [1] |
| B. | 57.54 ° N , 45.05 ° W | 14 km | [2] |
| C. | 55.8 ° N , 49.54 ° W | 7 km | [3] |
| D. | 55.27 ° N , 49.13 ° W | 6 km | [4] |
| E. | 56.68 ° N , 52.92 ° W | 8 kilometers | [5] |
| F. | 57.12 ° N , 54.02 ° W | 7 km | [6] |
| G | 55 ° N , 53.22 ° W | 6 km | [7] |
| H | 57.24 ° N , 48.17 ° W | 6 km | [8th] |
| K | 59.15 ° N , 50.18 ° W | 4 km | [9] |
| M. | 55.31 ° N , 51.01 ° W | 6 km | [10] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the British astronomer James South .
Web links
- South in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- South on The-Moon Wiki
- Spektrum.de : Amateur recordings [11]
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .