Toscanelli (moon crater)
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| Warrior with Toscanelli ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 27.96 ° N , 47.61 ° W | |
| diameter | 7 km | |
| depth | 1300 m | |
| Card sheet | 39 (PDF) | |
| Type | BIO | |
| Named after | Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli (1397–1482) | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Toscanelli is an impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon in the plane of Oceanus Procellarum . It is located southwest of the Krieger crater and north of the large Aristarchus ray crater , at the southern end of a groove of the Rimae Aristarchus . The Rupes Toscanelli furrow runs south in a north-south direction .
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1976 after the Italian doctor, mathematician, astronomer and cartographer Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli .
Web links
- Toscanelli in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Toscanelli 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 .