Roentgen Crater ( lat. Röntgen ) - a large impact crater in the northern hemisphere of the far side of the moon , the eastern part of the crater slightly extends to the visible side . The name was given in honor of the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen (1845-1923) and approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1964.
| X-ray | |
|---|---|
| lat Röntgen | |
 Shot of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter probe. The vertical bar on the right side of the crater is an artifact of the image. | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 128.4 km |
| Deepest | 3250 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845-1923) - German physicist, the first Nobel Prize winner in the history of physics (1901). |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
Content
Crater Description
Roentgen Crater is located in the southeastern part of the huge Lorenz Crater, adjacent to it are Nernst Crater in the northwest and Aston Crater in the east. Voskresensky crater is located in the southeast of Roentgen Crater, and in the southwest is Laue Crater [2] . Selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater , diameter 128.4 km [3] , depth 3250 m [4] .
The crater has a polygonal shape, is significantly destroyed and flooded with lava . The shaft is flattened, blocked by many craters of various sizes and turned into a ring of freestanding ridges. The shaft height above the surrounding area reaches 1630 m [5] , the volume of the crater is approximately 17000 km³ [5] . The bottom of the bowl is lined with lava, in the northern part of the bowl there is a large crater with a gap in the southern part of its shaft, also flooded with lava. In the northwestern part of the bowl are two small ridges. A little to the north of the center of the bowl above the surface of the lava is the peak of a double central peak.
Despite the location on the far side of the moon with favorable libration , the crater is accessible for observation from the Earth , but at a low angle and in a distorted form.
Satellite Craters
| X-ray [3] | Coordinates | Diameter, km |
|---|---|---|
| A | 18.8 | |
| B | 17.6 |
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
- ↑ Map of the far side of the moon.
- ↑ Roentgen Crater on the LAC-36 map.
- ↑ 1 2 Handbook of the International Astronomical Union
- ↑ John E. Westfall's Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, Cambridge Univ. Press (2000)
- ↑ 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 .