Voskresenskiy (moon crater)
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| Voskresenskiy with side crater ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 27.92 ° N , 88.06 ° W | |
| diameter | 49 km | |
| depth | 2510 m | |
| Card sheet | 37 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Leonid Alexandrowitsch Voskressensky (1913–1965) | |
| Named since | 1970 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Voskresenskiy is an impact crater on the northwestern edge of the lunar front . It is north of Bartels and west of Russell . The wall is eroded and has terracing. The inside is flat.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| K | 28.74 ° N , 84.17 ° W | 34 km | [1] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1970 after the Russian rocket engineer Leonid Alexandrovich Voskressensky .
Web links
- Voskresenskiy in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Voskresenskiy 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 .