Tacchini (moon crater)
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| Tacchini (center below) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 5.04 ° N , 85.82 ° O | |
| diameter | 40 km | |
| depth | 3550 m | |
| Card sheet | 63 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Pietro Tacchini (1838–1905) | |
| Named since | 1973 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Tacchini is an impact crater on the easternmost edge of the front of the moon , on the northern edge of Mare Smythii , northeast of the Schubert crater . The crater is badly eroded and especially the northeast part of the wall is almost leveled.
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1973 after the Italian astronomer Pietro Tacchini .
Web links
- Tacchini in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Tacchini 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 .