Watt (moon crater)

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Watt and Steinheil (bottom right) with Janssen ( LROC -WAC)
position	49.6 °  S , 48.43 °  E Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '0 "  S , 48 ° 25' 48"  E
diameter	68 km
depth	3450 m
Card sheet	128 (PDF)
Named after	James Watt (1736-1819)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Watt is an impact crater to the south of the moon's front . Together with the Steinheil crater , which overlies its north-western wall, it forms a double crater that lies southeast of the great Janssen Ring Mountains . The interior of the crater is largely flat in the south-east and covered in the north-west by Ejecta von Steinheil.

List of minor craters of Watts

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	50.36 °  S , 46.38 °  O	10 km	[1]
B.	50.3 °  S , 48.25 °  E	5 km	[2]
C.	50.12 °  S , 51.45 °  E	25 km	[3]
D.	50.37 °  S , 55.41 °  E	34 km	[4]
E.	49.69 °  S , 55.1 °  O	10 km	[5]
F.	50.92 °  S , 54.92 °  O	16 km	[6]
G	50.97 °  S , 58.8 °  E	13 km	[7]
H	51.29 °  S , 57.27 °  O	17 km	[8th]
J	51.75 °  S , 58.39 °  E	19 km	[9]
K	51.53 °  S , 55.95 °  O	8 kilometers	[10]
L.	52.65 °  S , 57.75 °  E	32 km	[11]
M.	53.2 °  S , 59.74 °  O	43 km	[12]
N	53.74 °  S , 58.89 °  E	13 km	[13]
R.	51.07 °  S , 47.39 °  E	12 km	[14]
S.	52.3 °  S , 47.83 °  E	6 km	[15]
T	51.8 °  S , 51.12 °  E	4 km	[16]
U	52.16 °  S , 51.74 °  E	5 km	[17]
W.	51.29 °  S , 51.94 °  O	6 km	[18]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Scottish inventor James Watt .

Web links

• Watt in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
• Watt on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .