Weigel (moon crater)

Weigel

Weigel ( Lunar Orbiter 4 )

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

35.85

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 ° WMoon -58.69 -38.07	14 km	[1]
B.	58.83 ° S , 41.52 ° WMoon -58.83 -41.52	37 km	[2]
C.	59.58 ° S , 42.17 ° WMoon -59.58 -42.17	10 km	[3]
D.	58.15 ° S , 42.01 ° WMoon -58.15 -42.01	14 km	[4]
E.	56.95 ° S , 42.43 ° WMoon -56.95 -42.43	11 km	[5]
F.	57.51 ° S , 41.21 ° WMoon -57.51 -41.21	8 kilometers	[6]
G	57.86 ° S , 35.82 ° WMoon -57.86 -35.82	6 km	[7]
H	58.35 ° S , 41.17 ° WMoon -58.35 -41.17	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

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

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