Street (moon crater)

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Street
Tycho SE - LROC - WAC.JPG
Street (bottom left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)
Street (Moon South Pole Region)
Street
position 46.6 °  S , 10.84 °  W Coordinates: 46 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  S , 10 ° 50 ′ 24 ″  W.
diameter 59 km
depth 2670 m
Card sheet 112 (PDF)
Named after Thomas Street (1621-1689)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Street is an impact crater south of the lunar front , south of Mare Nubium , south of Tycho crater, and west of Proctor . The crater is badly eroded.

List of Street's minor craters
Letter position diameter link
A. 46.98 °  S , 9.19 °  W 17 km [1]
B. 47.05 °  S , 12.25 °  W 13 km [2]
C. 48.46 °  S , 15.55 °  W 12 km [3]
D. 48.9 °  S , 12.81 °  W 9 km [4]
E. 47.47 °  S , 11.99 °  W 12 km [5]
F. 48.25 °  S , 16.82 °  W 7 km [6]
G 46.7 °  S , 15.23 °  W 10 km [7]
H 48.41 °  S , 12.38 °  W 28 km [8th]
J 48.76 °  S , 13.81 °  W 6 km [9]
K 47.58 °  S , 13.28 °  W 9 km [10]
L. 50.73 °  S , 13.73 °  W 6 km [11]
M. 47.82 °  S , 14.62 °  W 45 km [12]
N 48.29 °  S , 10.45 °  W 4 km [13]
P 45.65 °  S , 12.07 °  W 6 km [14]
R. 49.16 °  S , 14.73 °  W 5 km [15]
S. 48.99 °  S , 14.95 °  W 4 km [16]
T 49.29 °  S , 15.3 °  W 9 km [17]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the British astronomer Thomas Street .

Web links

  • Street in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
  • Street on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .