Vallis Bouvard

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Vallis Bouvard
Vallis Bouvard - LROC - WAC.JPG
Vallis Bouvard ( LROC -WAC)
Vallis Bouvard (Moon Equatorial Region)
Vallis Bouvard
position 38.44 °  S , 83.56 °  W Coordinates: 38 ° 26 '24 "  S , 83 ° 33' 36"  W.
diameter 288 km
Named after Alexis Bouvard (1767-1843).
See also Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature

The Vallis Bouvard is a lunar valley on the extreme western edge of the lunar front . It extends over a distance of nearly 300 kilometers from a point northeast of Baade Crater , near Bouvard D Crater , in a northeast direction to near Shaler Crater . Like the neighboring structures of Vallis Baade and Vallis Inghirami, it points in the direction of the large impact basin of the Mare Orientale . At the widest point it is about 50 km wide.

The Vallis Bouvard is the only lunar valley that gives its name to a group of side craters:

List of minor craters of Vallis Bouvard
Letter position diameter link
B. 41.71 °  S , 79.82 °  W 25 km [1]
C. 37.09 °  S , 77.48 °  W 15 km [2]
D. 42.77 °  S , 80.66 °  W 27 km [3]
E. 41.9 °  S , 77.53 °  W 13 km [4]
F. 42.46 °  S , 76.55 °  W 12 km [5]
G 42.07 °  S , 74.74 °  W 20 km [6]
M. 40.61 °  S , 77.52 °  W 74 km [7]
N 38.57 °  S , 76.52 °  W 66 km [8th]
P 38.92 °  S , 75.16 °  W 14 km [9]
R. 35.56 °  S , 84.38 °  W 8 kilometers [10]
S. 35.62 °  S , 80.63 °  W 12 km [11]

The structure was officially named by the IAU in 1970 after the French astronomer and mathematician Alexis Bouvard .

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