T. Mayer (moon crater)
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| Montes Carpatus with T. Mayer ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 15.5 ° N , 29.2 ° W | |
| diameter | 33 km | |
| depth | 2920 m | |
| Card sheet | 58 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Tobias Mayer (1723–1762) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
T. Mayer is an impact crater on the western front of the moon in the mountains of the Montes Carpatus between Mare Insularum and Mare Imbrium . It is northwest of Copernicus Crater and southwest of Pytheas . The crater wall is almost circular with a little eroded edge and the crater floor is relatively flat.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 15.23 ° N , 28.33 ° W | 15 km | [1] |
| B. | 15.33 ° N , 30.93 ° W | 12 km | [2] |
| C. | 12.2 ° N , 26.01 ° W | 15 km | [3] |
| D. | 12.22 ° N , 26.82 ° W | 8 kilometers | [4] |
| E. | 16.03 ° N , 26.21 ° W | 8 kilometers | [5] |
| F. | 12.86 ° N , 28.95 ° W | 5 km | [6] |
| G | 17.35 ° N , 27.18 ° W | 7 km | [7] |
| H | 11.68 ° N , 25.47 ° W | 5 km | [8th] |
| K | 18.1 ° N , 27.68 ° W | 5 km | [9] |
| L. | 13.18 ° N , 24.74 ° W | 4 km | [10] |
| M. | 14.89 ° N , 25.83 ° W | 5 km | [11] |
| N | 13.52 ° N , 25.61 ° W | 5 km | [12] |
| P | 14.02 ° N , 29.58 ° W | 37 km | [13] |
| R. | 11.61 ° N , 26.41 ° W | 4 km | [14] |
| S. | 11.64 ° N , 28.36 ° W | 3 km | [15] |
| W. | 17.55 ° N , 34.96 ° W | 33 km | [16] |
| Z | 14.17 ° N , 26.17 ° W | 4 km | [17] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Tobias Mayer .
Web links
- T. Mayer in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- T. Mayer 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 .