Watt (moon crater)
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Watt and Steinheil (bottom right) with Janssen ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 49.6 ° S , 48.43 ° 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.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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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
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .