Weigel (moon crater)
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Weigel ( Lunar Orbiter 4 ) | ||
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position | 58.36 ° S , 39.35 ° 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 |
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.
Letter | position | diameter | link |
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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
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .