Torricelli (moon crater)
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| Torricelli with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 4.75 ° S , 28.39 ° E | |
| diameter | 31 km | |
| depth | 2500 m | |
| Card sheet | 78 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Torricelli is an impact crater on the front of the Moon in the plain of the Sinus Asperitatis , north of Theophilus crater and south of Maskelyne . The irregularly shaped crater lies within its own secondary crater Torricelli R , which is only preserved in traces.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 4.55 ° S , 29.75 ° O | 10 km | [1] |
| B. | 2.64 ° S , 29.15 ° E | 7 km | [2] |
| C. | 2.72 ° S , 25.98 ° E | 11 km | [3] |
| F. | 4.22 ° S , 29.35 ° E | 9 km | [4] |
| G | 1.45 ° S , 26.94 ° E | 3 km | [5] |
| H | 3.36 ° S , 25.29 ° E | 7 km | [6] |
| J | 3.64 ° S , 25.09 ° O | 5 km | [7] |
| K | 4.03 ° S , 25.2 ° E | 7 km | [8th] |
| L. | 3.48 ° S , 24.26 ° O | 4 km | [9] |
| M. | 3.63 ° S , 31.23 ° O | 12 km | [10] |
| N | 6.13 ° S , 29.19 ° E | 4 km | [11] |
| P | 6.53 ° S , 29.86 ° O | 4 km | [12] |
| R. | 5.25 ° S , 28.13 ° E | 88 km | [13] |
| T | 4.27 ° S , 27.49 ° E | 4 km | [14] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Italian physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli .
Web links
- Torricelli in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Torricelli 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 .