Lacroix

Lacroix

Lat: 37.9°S, Long: 59.0°W, Diam: 37 km, Depth: 2.36 km, Rükl: 61

Table of Contents

[#Lacroix Lacroix]

[#Lacroix-Images Images]

[#Lacroix-Maps Maps]

[#Lacroix-Description Description]

[#Lacroix-Description: Elger Description: Elger]

[#Lacroix-Description: Wikipedia Description: Wikipedia]

[#Lacroix-Additional Information Additional Information]

[#Lacroix-Nomenclature Nomenclature]

[#Lacroix-LPOD Articles LPOD Articles]

[#Lacroix-Bibliography Bibliography]

LO-IV-160H In addition to Lacroix (to the left of center), the other named features in this view are 18-km Lacroix J (on its southwest rim), 13-km Lacroix H (in the lower right), and 14-km Lacroix N (the more deeply shadowed of the two craters in the upper right).

Images

LPOD Photo Gallery Lunar Orbiter Images Apollo Images

Maps

(LAC zone 110A4) LAC map Geologic map

Description

Description: Elger

(IAU Directions) LACROIX.--A ring-plain 20 miles in diameter, N. of Schickard. It has a prominent central mountain.

Description: Wikipedia

Lacroix

Additional Information

Depth data from Kurt Fisher database
 

• Westfall, 2000: 2.36 km
• Viscardy, 1985: 2.1 km

Nomenclature

Sylvestre Francois; French mathematician (1765-1843).
 

• According to Whitaker (p. 223), this name was introduced by Neison.

LPOD Articles

Bibliography

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