Väisälä (moon crater)
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| Väisälä and Aristarchus ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 25.9 ° N , 47.89 ° W | |
| diameter | 8 kilometers | |
| depth | 1530 m | |
| Card sheet | 39 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | Yrjö Väisälä (1891–1971) | |
| Named since | 1973 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Väisälä is a small impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon . It is located north of the large Aristarchus ray crater , between its secondary craters Aristarchus B and Aristarchus Z , south of the small Toscanelli crater . It is bowl-shaped and little eroded.
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1973 after the Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä .
Web links
- Väisälä in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Väisälä 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 .