Strabo (moon crater)
Strabo | ||
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Strabo to the north of De La Rue ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 61.97 ° N , 54.36 ° O | |
diameter | 55 km | |
depth | 4420 m | |
Card sheet | 14 (PDF) | |
Named after | Strabo (about 63 BC - after 28 AD). | |
Named since | 1935 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Strabo is a 55 km diameter, pronounced impact crater with a terraced wall and a lava-covered ground on the northeastern edge of the front of the moon . It lies east of the Thales crater and touches the whale level of the heavily eroded De La Rue crater in the south . To the south of it lies the large Endymion crater .
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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B. | 64.58 ° N , 55.46 ° O | 22 km | [1] |
C. | 67.08 ° N , 59.31 ° O | 18 km | [2] |
L. | 64.2 ° N , 53.42 ° O | 24 km | [3] |
N | 64.78 ° N , 57.49 ° E | 24 km | [4] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Greek geographer Strabo .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .