Linné Crater ( lat. Linné ) is a small, relatively young impact crater in the northwestern part of the Sea of Clarity on the visible side of the Moon . Crater formation refers to the Copernican period [1] .
| Linnaeus | |
|---|---|
| lat Linné | |
 Shot of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe. | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 2.23 km |
| Deepest | 600 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Karl Linney (1707-1778) - Swedish naturalist and physician. |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
The crater is named after Karl Linnaeus (1707-1778), an outstanding Swedish naturalist and physician; The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1935.
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Crater Description
The closest neighbors of the crater are Santos Dumont Crater in the west; Bunting Crater in the east-southeast; Hornsby Crater in the south and Joy Crater in the southwest. In the north-west of the crater are the mountains of the Caucasus and beyond them the Sea of Rains ; in the southwest - the Apennines [2] . Selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater are , diameter 2.23 km [3] , depth 600 m [4] .
Linnaeus Crater is formed in the thickness of basalt rocks of the Sea of Tranquility and has a truncated conical shape [5] . A shaft with a clearly defined sharp edge is surrounded by a dune-shaped area of rocks with a high albedo ejected during the formation of the crater. The inner slope is smooth, with radial stripes around the perimeter.
Linnaeus Crater is one of the craters in which temperature anomalies are recorded during eclipses . This is explained by the fact that such craters are small in age and the rocks did not have time to become covered with regolith , which has a thermally insulating effect.
In 1868, the German astronomer Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt made a statement that the Linnaeus crater changed its shape. This statement, in all likelihood, was caused by the imperfection of the observational instruments of that time, but it served as a surge of interest in selenography .
Short Moon Phenomena
Short-term lunar phenomena (CL) in the form of an increase in the size of a light spot during eclipses were observed in Linnaeus Crater.
Satellite Craters
| Linnaeus | Coordinates | Diameter, km |
|---|---|---|
| A | 4.2 | |
| B | 5,4 | |
| D | 4.3 | |
| F | 4.9 | |
| G | 4.2 | |
| H | 3.4 |
To the satellite crater Linnaeus E, the International Astronomical Union in 1973 appropriated its own name: Bunting Crater .
Gallery
Visualization of crater altitude measurements with a Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe.
Crater shaft, image of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe.
See also
- List of Craters on the Moon
- Lunar crater
- Morphological catalog of Moon Craters
- Planetary nomenclature
- Selenography
- Mineralogy of the Moon
- Geology of the moon
- Late heavy bombardment
Notes
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Linnaeus Crater on the LAC-42 map
- ↑ Handbook of the International Astronomical Union
- ↑ John E. Westfall's Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, Cambridge Univ. Press (2000)
- ↑ LINNE: SIMPLE LUNAR MARE CRATER GEOMETRY FROM LRO OBSERVATIONS: JB Garvin1, MS Robinson2, J. Frawley1,3, T. Tran2, E. Mazarico1, and G. Neumann1; 1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771; 2Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; 3Herring Bay Geophysics, MD. (james.b.garvin@nasa.gov)
Links
- Digital photographic atlas of the moon.
- Pictures of the crater from the side of Apollo 15, Apollo 17.
- Linnaeus Crater on the LAC-42 map.
- Selenological map of the vicinity of the crater.
- Linnaeus Crater on the LM-42 map.
- Topographic map of the vicinity of the crater.
- Description of the crater on The Moon-Wiki.
- Andersson, LE, and EA Whitaker, NASA Catalog of Lunar Nomenclature, NASA Reference Publication 1097, October 1982.