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Petit (crater)

Crater on the Moon

Summary

Crater on the Moon

FieldValue
imagePetit crater AS15-M-1626.jpg
captionApollo 15 image
coordinates
diameter5.04 km
depth1.0 km
colong297
eponymAlexis T. Petit

Petit is a small, bowl-shaped lunar impact crater that is located on the northwestern edge of the Mare Spumans. The crater has a prominent ray system. The name is appropriate, since petite means small in French. But it was actually named in honor of Alexis Thérèse Petit, a French physicist.

The crater lies to the south of the crater Townley, and east of Condon. Farther to the northwest is Apollonius. Petit was previously designated Apollonius W before being given a name by the IAU in 1976.

Petit crater AS10-34-5130.jpg|Oblique view from Apollo 10 (in color) Petit crater AS17-P-2907.jpg|Interior of Petit, showing flat crater floor of impact melt with no visible craters, from Apollo 17 Petit crater AS16-P-5168.jpg|Oblique view from Apollo 16 Petit_crater_AS17-P-2595.jpg|Oblique view from Apollo 17

References

  • {{cite book | author-link2 = Ewen Whitaker
  • {{cite web | access-date = 2007-08-05
  • {{cite book | author-link1 = Ben Bussey | author-link2 = Paul Spudis
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  • {{cite web | access-date = 2007-10-24 | archive-date = 2012-02-08 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120208141804/http://host.planet4589.org/astro/lunar/ | url-status = dead
  • {{cite book | author-link = Patrick Moore
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  • {{cite book | author-link = Antonín Rükl
  • {{cite book | author-link = Thomas William Webb
  • {{cite book | author-link = Ewen Whitaker
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References

  1. [https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4671 Petit], Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)
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