Sylvester (moon crater)
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| Sylvester right, above Catena Sylvester , below Sylvester N ( Clementine probe, north is right) | ||
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| position | 82.62 ° N , 80.88 ° W | |
| diameter | 59 km | |
| depth | 2980 m | |
| Card sheet | 1 (PDF) | |
| Named after | James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897), British mathematician | |
| Named since | 1964 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Sylvester is an impact crater on the Moon near the North Pole on the western edge of the Moon's front. The depth of the crater is given as 2980 m.
Starting near the eastern edge, the Catena Sylvester , a chain of small, overlapping impact craters , runs southwards .
The crater was named by the IAU in 1964 after the British mathematician James Joseph Sylvester .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| N | 82.4 ° N , 68.63 ° W | 20 km | [1] |
New Years Eve in Literature
- In the science fiction novel Limit (novel) by Frank Schätzing , the crater is used to weaken the explosion of an atomic bomb.
Web links
- New Year's Eve in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- New Year's Eve 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 .
Sunrise at Sylvester Crater ( Lunar Orbiter 4 , north up)