Tacquet (moon crater)
| Tacquet | ||
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| Mare Serenitatis with Tacquet ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 16.62 ° N , 19.19 ° E | |
| diameter | 6 km | |
| depth | 1100 m | |
| Card sheet | 42 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | André Tacquet (1612-1660) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Tacquet is an impact crater on the front of the moon in the Mare Serenitatis plain , east of the Menelaus crater and west of Pliny , at the eastern end of the ridge system of the Rimae Menelaus . The crater is bowl-shaped and hardly eroded.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| B. | 15.94 ° N , 20.09 ° O | 15 km | [1] |
| C. | 13.45 ° N , 21.08 ° E | 5 km | [2] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Flemish mathematician André Tacquet .
Web links
- Tacquet in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Tacquet 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 .