Spallanzani (moon crater)

Spallanzani

position

46.38 ° S , 24.72 ° O coordinates: 46 ° 22 '48 " S , 24 ° 43' 12" O

diameter

33 km

depth

2270 m

Card sheet

113 (PDF)

Named after

Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799)

Named since

1935

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

32.87

Spallanzani is an impact crater south of the lunar front , east of Barocius crater and south of Nicolai . The rim of the crater is irregularly shaped and moderately eroded, the interior of the crater is largely flat.

List of minor craters of Spallanzani
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	46.33 ° S , 25.59 ° EMoon -46.33 25.59	7 km	[1]
D.	46.2 ° S , 28.55 ° EMoon -46.2 28.55	6 km	[2]
F.	45.66 ° S , 28.03 ° OMoon -45.66 03/28	22 km	[3]
G	45.43 ° S , 28.53 ° OMoon -45.43 28.53	14 km	[4]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian polymath Lazzaro Spallanzani .

Web links

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