Weigel (moon crater)

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Weigel
Weigel LO-IV-160H LTVT.JPG
Weigel ( Lunar Orbiter 4 )
Weigel (moon south pole region)
Weigel
position 58.36 °  S , 39.35 °  W Coordinates: 58 ° 21 '36 "  S , 39 ° 21' 0"  W
diameter 36 km
depth 2360 m
Card sheet 125 (PDF)
Named after Erhard Weigel (1625–1699)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Weigel is an impact crater to the south of the front of the moon , south of the Schiller crater and northeast of Zucchius . The crater rim is moderately eroded and is overlaid in the southeast by the secondary crater Weigel A , the crater floor is flat.

List of Weigel's secondary craters
Letter position diameter link
A. 58.69 °  S , 38.07 °  W 14 km [1]
B. 58.83 °  S , 41.52 °  W 37 km [2]
C. 59.58 °  S , 42.17 °  W 10 km [3]
D. 58.15 °  S , 42.01 °  W 14 km [4]
E. 56.95 °  S , 42.43 °  W 11 km [5]
F. 57.51 °  S , 41.21 °  W 8 kilometers [6]
G 57.86 °  S , 35.82 °  W 6 km [7]
H 58.35 °  S , 41.17 °  W 14 km [8th]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German naturalist and mathematician Erhard Weigel .

Web links

  • Weigel in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
  • Weigel 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 .