Stokes (moon crater)
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| Stokes, southwest of Volta ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 52.42 ° N , 88.06 ° W | |
| diameter | 54 km | |
| depth | 1830 m | |
| Card sheet | 21 (PDF) | |
| Named after | George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) | |
| Named since | 1964 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Stokes is a relatively small impact crater on the extreme western edge of the front of the moon and is therefore sometimes invisible due to the libration , and if it is visible from Earth, then strongly distorted. It is located west of Oceanus Procellarum on the southwestern edge of the Volta crater , between the roughly equal craters Regnault in the north and Langley in the south. The crater rim is moderately eroded.
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1964 after the Irish physicist George Gabriel Stokes .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .