Wolf (moon crater)

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WOlf ( LROC -WAC)
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

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 .