Crater Louise ( lat. Louise ) - a small impact crater located in the southwestern part of the Sea of Rains on the visible side of the moon . The name was assigned by the French female name and approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1979.
| Louise | |
|---|---|
| lat Louise | |
 Shot of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe. | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 0.64 km |
| Deepest | 260 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | French female name. |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
Content
Crater Description
The closest neighbors of the crater are Diophantus crater in the south and tiny craters - Samir in the west; Isabelle in the south-southeast; Walter in the southeast. In the north of the Louise crater is Diofant's furrow and then Delille crater, in the northwest - Delilah peak [1] .
Selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater , diameter 0.64 km [2] , depth 260 m [3] .
The crater has a circular bowl shape, the volume of the crater is approximately 0.02 km³ [4] . The crater got its own name only because it was marked on the phototopographic map 39B2S1 (25) [5] , subsequently the names on this map were approved by the International Astronomical Union.
Crater Louise is included in the list of craters with a bright ray system of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Astronomy (ALPO) [6] .
Satellite Craters
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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
- ↑ Louise Crater on the LAC-39 map
- ↑ Handbook of the International Astronomical Union
- ↑ John E. Westfall's Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, Cambridge Univ. Press (2000)
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Louise Crater on a photographic topographic map 39B2S1 (25)
- ↑ List of craters with a bright ray system of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Astronomy (ALPO) Archived on March 4, 2016.
Links
- Digital Photographic Atlas of the Moon
- Pictures of the vicinity of the crater from the side of Apollo 15, Apollo 17
- Crater Louise on the map LAC-39
- Crater Louise on the map LM-39
- Topographic map of the vicinity of the crater
- Selenological map of the vicinity of the crater
- Photographic 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.