Phocylides is a lunarimpact crater located near the southwest rim of the Moon. It overlays the south rim of the crater Nasmyth to the north. To the northwest is the unusual plateau formation of Wargentin. Eastward is the merged formation Schiller, and in the southwest lies Pingré.
Selenochromatic Image(Si) of the crater area(to the bottom right)Earth-based view with Nasmyth, Phocylides, and Wargentin at right and Schickard in upper left.
The outer wall of Phocylides is worn and eroded, especially along the western edge. The northern edge of the rim is notched and irregular, with a rise of ground joining the south rim of Wargentin. The crater Phocylides F lies across the southern rim. The floor of Phocylides is flooded and relatively smooth, with a few small craterlets and no central peak. The most notable impact on the floor is a crater near the northeast rim.
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phocylides, crater, phocylides, lunar, impact, crater, located, near, southwest, moon, overlays, south, crater, nasmyth, north, northwest, unusual, plateau, formation, wargentin, eastward, merged, formation, schiller, southwest, lies, pingré, phocylideslunar, . Phocylides is a lunar impact crater located near the southwest rim of the Moon It overlays the south rim of the crater Nasmyth to the north To the northwest is the unusual plateau formation of Wargentin Eastward is the merged formation Schiller and in the southwest lies Pingre PhocylidesLunar Orbiter 4 imageCoordinates52 54 S 57 18 W 52 9 S 57 3 W 52 9 57 3Diameter114 kmDepth2 1 kmColongitude56 at sunriseEponymJohannes Phocylides HolwardaSelenochromatic Image Si of the crater area to the bottom right Earth based view with Nasmyth Phocylides and Wargentin at right and Schickard in upper left The outer wall of Phocylides is worn and eroded especially along the western edge The northern edge of the rim is notched and irregular with a rise of ground joining the south rim of Wargentin The crater Phocylides F lies across the southern rim The floor of Phocylides is flooded and relatively smooth with a few small craterlets and no central peak The most notable impact on the floor is a crater near the northeast rim Phocylides lies to the northwest of the Schiller Zucchius Basin Satellite craters editBy convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Phocylides Phocylides Latitude Longitude DiameterA 54 6 S 51 6 W 19 kmB 53 8 S 51 7 W 8 kmC 51 0 S 52 6 W 46 kmD 53 2 S 51 6 W 7 kmE 55 5 S 57 7 W 32 kmF 54 8 S 57 4 W 23 kmG 51 2 S 50 8 W 14 kmJ 54 1 S 62 7 W 22 kmK 52 2 S 48 9 W 14 kmKA 52 0 S 48 9 W 12 kmKB 51 7 S 48 8 W 14 kmL 56 9 S 62 7 W 9 kmM 55 5 S 60 5 W 9 kmN 52 1 S 55 5 W 15 kmS 55 9 S 59 8 W 10 kmV 56 6 S 60 6 W 8 kmX 50 5 S 50 6 W 7 kmZ 50 0 S 50 8 W 8 kmReferences editAndersson L E Whitaker E A 1982 NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature NASA RP 1097 Blue Jennifer July 25 2007 Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature USGS Retrieved 2007 08 05 Bussey B Spudis P 2004 The Clementine Atlas of the Moon New York Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0 521 81528 4 Cocks Elijah E Cocks Josiah C 1995 Who s Who on the Moon A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature Tudor Publishers ISBN 978 0 936389 27 1 McDowell Jonathan July 15 2007 Lunar Nomenclature Jonathan s Space Report Retrieved 2007 10 24 Menzel D H Minnaert M Levin B Dollfus A Bell B 1971 Report on Lunar Nomenclature by the Working Group of Commission 17 of the IAU Space Science Reviews 12 2 136 186 Bibcode 1971SSRv 12 136M doi 10 1007 BF00171763 S2CID 122125855 Moore Patrick 2001 On the Moon Sterling Publishing Co ISBN 978 0 304 35469 6 Price Fred W 1988 The Moon Observer s Handbook Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0 521 33500 3 Rukl Antonin 1990 Atlas of the Moon Kalmbach Books ISBN 978 0 913135 17 4 Webb Rev T W 1962 Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes 6th revised ed Dover ISBN 978 0 486 20917 3 Whitaker Ewen A 1999 Mapping and Naming the Moon Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0 521 62248 6 Wlasuk Peter T 2000 Observing the Moon Springer ISBN 978 1 85233 193 1 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Phocylides crater amp oldid 1199123787, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
