The Cremona crater ( lat. Cremona ) is a large ancient impact crater on the north-north-western limb of the visible side of the moon , most of it is on the far side of the moon. The name was given in honor of the Italian mathematician Luigi Cremona (1830-1903) and approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1964. The formation of the crater belongs to the nectarian period [1] .
| Cremona | |
|---|---|
| lat Cremona | |
 Snapshot of the Lunar Orbiter Probe - IV . | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 85.1 km |
| Deepest | 4080 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Luigi Cremona (1830-1903) - Italian mathematician. |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
Content
Crater Description
The nearest neighbors of the Cremona crater are the Lindblad crater in the northwest; Brianchon crater in the north; Crater Desargues in the northeast; the crater Pythagoras in the east-southeast and the crater Buhl in the south-southeast [2] . The selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater are , diameter 85.1 km [3] , depth 4.1 km [4] .
Crater Cremona has a polygonal shape. The shaft is flattened, covered with two small craters in the northwestern part, with a cluster of craters in the northeast and a noticeable Cremona L satellite crater (see below) in the southern part. The inner slope of the shaft is wide and uneven around the perimeter of the crater; it has a wide ledge in the northern part and an unusually large width in the western part. The height of the shaft above the surrounding terrain reaches 1390 m [1] , the volume of the crater is approximately 6800 km³ [1] . The bottom of the bowl is relatively even, the northeastern part of the bowl is occupied by a twin pair of craters Cremona B and Cremona C, the remains of the central peak adjoin the western part of the shaft of the latter.
Due to its location at the north-north-western limb of the moon, the crater has a distorted shape when observed; the observations depend on libration .
Satellite craters
| Cremona | Coordinates | Diameter, km |
|---|---|---|
| A | 42.9 | |
| B | 19.3 | |
| C | 14.4 | |
| L | 21.6 |
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 .
- ↑ Cremona crater on LAC-9 map
- ↑ Directory of the International Astronomical Union
- ↑ John E. Westfalls Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, Cambridge Univ. Press (2000)