Strabo (moon crater)

Strabo

Strabo to the north of De La Rue ( LROC -WAC)

position

61.97 ° N , 54.36 ° O coordinates: 61 ° 58 '12 " N , 54 ° 21' 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

54.72

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 .

List of Strabo's minor craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
B.	64.58 ° N , 55.46 ° OMoon 64.58 55.46	22 km	[1]
C.	67.08 ° N , 59.31 ° OMoon 67.08 59.31	18 km	[2]
L.	64.2 ° N , 53.42 ° OMoon 64.2 53.42	24 km	[3]
N	64.78 ° N , 57.49 ° EMoon 64.78 57.49	24 km	[4]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Greek geographer Strabo .

Web links

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