Wolf (moon crater)

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Wolf - LROC - WAC.JPG
WOlf ( LROC -WAC)
Wolf (moon equatorial region)
wolf
position 22.78 °  S , 16.65 °  W Coordinates: 22 ° 46 ′ 48 ″  S , 16 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  W.
diameter 26 km
depth 790 m
Card sheet 94 (PDF)
Named after Max Wolf (1863-1932)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Wolf is an impact crater to the southwest of the lunar front in the Mare Nubium plain , southeast of Bullialdus crater and southwest of Nicollet .

The irregularly shaped crater is embedded in a group of elevations within the mare plain and possibly arose from the superposition of several smaller impacts.

List of minor craters from Wolf
Letter position diameter link
A. 22.3 °  S , 18.54 °  W 6 km [1]
B. 23.21 °  S , 16.51 °  W 15 km [2]
C. 24.14 °  S , 14.61 °  W 3 km [3]
E. 23.97 °  S , 16.45 °  W 2 km [4]
F. 22.03 °  S , 15.01 °  W 2 km [5]
A. 15.77 °  N , 7.75 °  W 7 km [6]
B. 16.02 °  N , 8.75 °  W 8 kilometers [7]
G 22.63 °  S , 16.9 °  W 7 km [8th]
H 23.03 °  S , 14.79 °  W 8 kilometers [9]
S. 21.09 °  S , 16.47 °  W 27 km [10]
T 23.39 °  S , 18.94 °  W 27 km [11]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Max Wolf .

Web links

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