Wollaston (moon crater)
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| position | 30.59 ° N , 46.97 ° W | |
| diameter | 10 km | |
| depth | 2220 m | |
| Card sheet | 39 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Wollaston is an impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon in the plain of Oceanus Procellarum . It is northwest of Krieger Crater . The crater is bowl-shaped, the edge hardly eroded.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| D. | 33.15 ° N , 48.78 ° W | 4 km | [1] |
| N | 28.36 ° N , 48.14 ° W | 6 km | [2] |
| P | 29.25 ° N , 49.93 ° W | 4 km | [3] |
| R. | 29.47 ° N , 50.86 ° W | 6 km | [4] |
| U | 30.97 ° N , 52.84 ° W | 3 km | [5] |
| V | 30.87 ° N , 53.96 ° W | 3 km | [6] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the English doctor, physicist and chemist William Hyde Wollaston .
Web links
- Wollaston in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Wollaston 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 .