Van Albad (Moon Crater)

Van albada
Van albada
	niderl. van albada
	; Craters Van Albad (lower) and Ozu (upper). A snapshot of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe.
Specifications
Diameter	23 km
Type of	Shock
Deepest	3940 m
Title
Eponym	Gale Bruno van Albad (1912-1972) - Dutch astronomer .
Location
Heavenly body	Moon
	Van albada

Crater Van Albada ( niderl. Van Albada ) - a lunar impact crater , formerly known as "Ozu A". In 1976, the International Astronomical Union gave the crater a new name, in honor of the Dutch astronomer Gale Bruno van Albada (1912-1972) ^[1] .

Content

Location

The surroundings of the Van Albad Crater. A snapshot of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe.

The crater is located near the southeastern edge of the Sea of Crisis and northeast of the larger Crater Firmic Crater. It is in contact with the southeast border of the Ozu crater. Directly east of Van Albad Crater is the Krog Crater. In the south-east of the crater is the Sea of Waves , in the south-west - Lake of Perseverance ^[2] . The selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater are

Description

The diameter of this crater is about 23 km. It has an irregular round shape with a slight bulge in the northwest. In addition, a crater 12 km in diameter violates its eastern border and their total width (from east to west) is 30 km. The inner wall of the crater is slightly higher in the north, possibly due to the fact that it is there that it contacts the outer shaft of the Ozu crater. The soil inside the crater is darker than the outside: its albedo coincides with the albedo of the Sea of Crises in the northwest.

The crater has a very clear shaft, without terraces and collapses. The shaft height above the surrounding area is about 800 m ^[3] , the crater volume is about 270 km³ ^[3] . The bottom is uneven, but without slides and a central peak. The radiation system is also absent. No lava exits were noted. The crater is located on the mainland ^[4] . The crater depth is about 3.94 km ^[5] .

Satellite Craters

Are absent.

Notes

↑ Handbook of the International Astronomical Union
↑ Van Albad Crater on LAC-62 map
↑ ¹ ² Lunar Impact Crater Database . Losiak A., Kohout T., O'Sulllivan K., Thaisen K., Weider S. (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Lunar Exploration Intern Program, 2009); updated by Öhman T. in 2011. Archived page .
↑ Morphological catalog of the craters of the Moon / J. F. Rodionova, A. A. Karlov, T. P. Skobelev, etc. Under the general editorship of V.V. Shevchenko. - M .: Publishing House of Moscow State University, 1987 .-- 173 p.
↑ Westfall JE Digitized Lunar Crater Depths - Westfall (2000) Appendix // Atlas of the Lunar Terminator . - Cambridge University Press, 2000. - P. 284. - 292 p. - ISBN 0521590027 .

Links

[1] Handbook of the International Astronomical Union

[2] Van Albad Crater on LAC-62 map

[LICD-3] ¹ ² Lunar Impact Crater Database . Losiak A., Kohout T., O'Sulllivan K., Thaisen K., Weider S. (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Lunar Exploration Intern Program, 2009); updated by Öhman T. in 2011. Archived page .

[4] Morphological catalog of the craters of the Moon / J. F. Rodionova, A. A. Karlov, T. P. Skobelev, etc. Under the general editorship of V.V. Shevchenko. - M .: Publishing House of Moscow State University, 1987 .-- 173 p.

[Westfall_2000-5] Westfall JE Digitized Lunar Crater Depths - Westfall (2000) Appendix // Atlas of the Lunar Terminator . - Cambridge University Press, 2000. - P. 284. - 292 p. - ISBN 0521590027 .