Thales (moon crater)

Thales

Thales Crater ( LROC -WAC)

position

61.73 ° N , 50.28 ° O coordinates: 61 ° 43 '48 " N , 50 ° 16' 48" O

diameter

31 km

depth

4540 m

Card sheet

14 (PDF)

Named after

Thales of Miletus (approx. 636-546 BC)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

30.75

Thales is an impact crater to the northeast of the moon's front . It lies west of the Strabo crater and northwest of the De La Rue whale plain (lunar crater) . The crater is deep and little eroded.

In 1892, Edward Barnard observed transient phenomena at Thales Crater . Barnard reports that on March 31, 1892, when the crater was near the terminator , he observed a pronounced haze inside and over the crater rim.

List of Thales minor craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	58.55 ° N , 40.89 ° OMoon 58.55 40.89	12 km	[1]
E.	57.2 ° N , 43.17 ° OMoon 57.2 43.17	29 km	[2]
F.	59.34 ° N , 42.08 ° EMoon 59.34 42.08	37 km	[3]
G	61.73 ° N , 45.51 ° OMoon 61.73 45.51	11 km	[4]
H	60.38 ° N , 48.07 ° EMoon 60.38 July 48	11 km	[5]
W.	58.57 ° N , 39.86 ° EMoon 58.57 39.86	6 km	[6]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Greek philosopher and astronomer Thales von Miletus .

Web links

Thales in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Thales 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 .
^ Edward Barnard: The Lunar Craters Alpetragius and Thales. In: Astronomische Nachrichten 130 (1892), Issue 1, Col. 7-10, online

[1] John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .

[2] Edward Barnard: The Lunar Craters Alpetragius and Thales. In: Astronomische Nachrichten 130 (1892), Issue 1, Col. 7-10, online