Wallace (moon crater)
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| Wallace with side craters ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 20.24 ° N , 8.75 ° W | |
| diameter | 27 km | |
| depth | 160 m | |
| Card sheet | 41 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Wallace is an impact crater on the front of the moon in the Mare Imbrium plain . The crater is a so-called ghost crater , i. H. very shallow and largely flooded.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 19.17 ° N , 5.6 ° W | 4 km | [1] |
| C. | 17.64 ° N , 6.42 ° W | 5 km | [2] |
| D. | 17.84 ° N , 5.72 ° W | 4 km | [3] |
| H | 21.28 ° N , 9.09 ° W | 2 km | [4] |
| K | 19.3 ° N , 6.8 ° W | 2 km | [5] |
| T | 21.82 ° N , 5.17 ° W | 2 km | [6] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the British natural historian Alfred Russel Wallace .
Web links
- Wallace in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Wallace 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 .