Crater de la Rue ( lat. De La Rue ) - the remains of a huge ancient impact crater in the northern hemisphere of the visible side of the moon . The name was given in honor of the British astronomer and chemist , one of the pioneers of astrophotography , Warren de la Rue (1815-1889) and approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1935. The formation of the crater belongs to the pre-Actor period [1] .
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 Snapshot of the Lunar Orbiter Probe - IV | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 135.2 km |
| Deepest | 2610 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Warren de la Rue (1815-1889) - British astronomer and chemist. |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
Content
Crater Description
The nearest neighbors of the crater are the Gertner crater in the west-north-west; crates Thales and Strabo , adjacent to the northern part of the crater De la Rue; the huge crater Endymion in the south-southeast and the crater Keldysh in the southwest. To the west of the crater is the Sea of Cold [2] . The selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater are , diameter 135.2 km [3] , depth 2.61 km [4] .
For a long time of its existence, the crater is almost completely destroyed and visible only at low rays of the Sun , it is possible that this is not a single crater, but a formation of pear-shaped formation from several ancient craters. The crater shaft is a separate preserved hills and ridges. The northern part of the shaft is smoothed, the southeastern part is a relatively straight wall crashing into the crater. the height of the remnants of the shaft above the surrounding terrain reaches 1,670 m [1] , the volume of the crater is approximately 19,500 km³ [1] . The bottom of the crater bowl is flat, flooded with lava . In the northern part of the crater bowl, one can discern the remains of two ancient craters, whose shafts barely protrude above the bottom surface of the De La Rue crater bowl. In the center of the bowl is located the satellite crater De la Rue J (see below) of a circular bowl-shaped form, to the west of the center of the bowl there is a small ridge. The southeastern part of the bowl is intersected; in it one can discern the remains of five large craters. In the northeastern part of the bowl is a conspicuous united pair of two small craters.
Satellite craters
| De la Rue [3] | Coordinates | Diameter, km |
|---|---|---|
| D | 17.6 | |
| E | 31.9 | |
| J | 14.1 | |
| P | 9.0 | |
| Q | 10.4 | |
| R | 9.6 | |
| S | 13.3 | |
| W | 17.0 |
See also
- List of craters on the moon
- Moon crater
- Morphological catalog of craters of the moon
- Planetary Nomenclature
- Selenography
- Mineralogy of the Moon
- Geology of the Moon
- Late heavy bombardment
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 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 .
- ↑ Crater de la Rue on LAC-14 map
- ↑ 1 2 Directory of the International Astronomical Union
- ↑ John E. Westfalls Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, Cambridge Univ. Press (2000)