Suess (moon crater)
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| position | 4.34 ° N , 47.71 ° W | |
| diameter | 8 kilometers | |
| depth | 1920 m | |
| Card sheet | 57 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Eduard Suess (1831-1914) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Suess is an impact crater on the western front of the moon in the plane of Oceanus Procellarum . It is located southeast of the Reiner crater and southwest of Kepler .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| B. | 5.64 ° N , 47.39 ° W | 7 km | [1] |
| D. | 4.64 ° N , 46.59 ° W | 7 km | [2] |
| F. | 1.15 ° N , 44.71 ° W | 7 km | [3] |
| G | 3.39 ° N , 48.45 ° W | 4 km | [4] |
| H | 3.94 ° N , 45.75 ° W | 4 km | [5] |
| J | 6.88 ° N , 48.53 ° W | 3 km | [6] |
| K | 6.53 ° N , 50.07 ° W | 3 km | [7] |
| L. | 6.06 ° N , 50.56 ° W | 4 km | [8th] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .