Stadius (moon crater)

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Stadius
Eratosthenes crater.png
The sinus estuary with the Eratosthenes crater , below on the left the ghost crater Stadius. On the left edge of the picture, the Ringgebirge of Copernicus appears in the grazing sunlight.
Stadius (moon equatorial region)
Stadius
position 10.46 °  N , 13.79 °  W Coordinates: 10 ° 27 '36 "  N , 13 ° 47' 24"  W.
diameter 68 km
Card sheet 58 (PDF)
Named after Johannes Stadius (1527–1579)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Stadius is a 64 km large but heavily eroded moon crater on the western edge of the Sinus Aestuum , near the center of the visible half of the moon. The exactly circular crater wall was flooded by basaltic lava during the formation of the sea during the Imbrian period , so that only a fragmentary ring some 100 meters high stands (" ghost crater ").

In the immediate vicinity lies the Eratosthenes large crater to the north and the young Copernicus mountain range to the west , the impact of which has caused several secondary craters in a chain to the north of Stadius.

List of minor craters
Letter position diameter link
A. 10.44 °  N , 14.85 °  W 4 km [1]
B. 11.83 °  N , 13.64 °  W 6 km [2]
C. 9.73 °  N , 12.92 °  W 3 km [3]
D. 10.28 °  N , 15.37 °  W 4 km [4]
E. 12.6 °  N , 15.62 °  W 4 km [5]
F. 13.02 °  N , 15.68 °  W 4 km [6]
G 11.22 °  N , 14.8 °  W 4 km [7]
H 11.61 °  N , 13.99 °  W 4 km [8th]
J 13.79 °  N , 16.12 °  W 5 km [9]
K 9.66 °  N , 13.67 °  W 4 km [10]
L. 10.13 °  N , 12.98 °  W 3 km [11]
M. 14.71 °  N , 16.59 °  W 6 km [12]
N 9.39 °  N , 15.68 °  W 5 km [13]
P 11.75 °  N , 15.24 °  W 6 km [14]
Q 11.46 °  N , 14.83 °  W 3 km [15]
R. 12.24 °  N , 15.26 °  W 5 km [16]
S. 12.89 °  N , 15.59 °  W 4 km [17]
T 13.16 °  N , 15.78 °  W 6 km [18]
U 13.96 °  N , 16.46 °  W 5 km [19]
W. 14.09 °  N , 16.48 °  W 4 km [20]

literature

  • Antonín Rükl : Moon, Mars, Venus. Pocket atlas of the closest celestial bodies . Artaria-Verlag, Prague 1977, pp. 138f.

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