White (moon crater)

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White
White (moon equatorial region)
White
position 31.75 °  S , 19.64 °  W Coordinates: 31 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 19 ° 38 ′ 24 ″  W.
diameter 67 km
depth 1000 m
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Named after Edmund Weiss (1837-1917)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Weiss is an impact crater in the southwest of the front of the moon between Mare Nubium and Palus Epidemiarum , northeast of the Cichus crater and southeast of Mercator , at the end of the Rupes Mercator .

The crater is very heavily eroded, in the north the wall has almost completely disappeared and the interior is open to the Mare Nubium.

List of side craters of Weiss
Letter position diameter link
A. 30.65 °  S , 18.75 °  W 4 km [1]
B. 31.27 °  S , 18.46 °  W 8 kilometers [2]
D. 30.72 °  S , 20.5 °  W 8 kilometers [3]
E. 31.15 °  S , 19.32 °  W 16 km [4]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Austrian astronomer Edmund Weiss .

Web links

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