Rabbi Levi (crater)
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Rabbi Levi is a lunar
impact crater
that is located among the rugged highlands in the southeastern part of the Moon
's near side. Several notable craters are located nearby, including Zagut
just to the north-northwest, the heavily impacted Riccius
to the southeast, and Lindenau
to the northeast next to Zagut.
This is a heavily worn and eroded crater formation, with several smaller craters lying along the incised rim and across the interior floor. A group of these craters form a cluster in the western part of the floor, consisting of the satellite craters A, L, M, and D, as well as lesser craterlets trailing away to the south-southeast. The largest of these craters is Rabbi Levi L, a bowl-shaped formation just to the northwest of the mid-point. The remainder of the floor is relatively level and nearly featureless. Clusters of craters also lay across the eastern and southwestern sections of the rim.
Attached to the northeast is the remnant of an old formation that intrudes into Rabbi Levi, producing a straightened section of rim along that face. This unnamed formation has been almost completely obliterated, and is overlain in the northwest by Lindenau, and along the outer northeast side by Rothmann
.
The crater is named after the Medieval Jewish scholar Gersonides
.
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impact crater
Impact crater
In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...
that is located among the rugged highlands in the southeastern part of the Moon
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
's near side. Several notable craters are located nearby, including Zagut
Zagut (crater)
Zagut is a crater located in the heavily impacted southeast sector of the Moon. It is almost surrounded by other named craters, with Wilkins to the northwest, Lindenau to the east, Rabbi Levi in the southeast, and Celsius to the southwest....
just to the north-northwest, the heavily impacted Riccius
Riccius (crater)
Riccius is a lunar crater that is located in the rugged, southeastern part of the Moon's near side. It lies within one crater diameter southeast of the crater Rabbi Levi. To the east-northeast is Stiborius and due south is Nicolai....
to the southeast, and Lindenau
Lindenau (crater)
Lindenau is a lunar impact crater. It is located beside the east-southeastern rim of the crater Zagut, and to the northeast of Rabbi Levi. To the northeast is the slightly smaller crater Rothmann and the Rupes Altai scarp...
to the northeast next to Zagut.
This is a heavily worn and eroded crater formation, with several smaller craters lying along the incised rim and across the interior floor. A group of these craters form a cluster in the western part of the floor, consisting of the satellite craters A, L, M, and D, as well as lesser craterlets trailing away to the south-southeast. The largest of these craters is Rabbi Levi L, a bowl-shaped formation just to the northwest of the mid-point. The remainder of the floor is relatively level and nearly featureless. Clusters of craters also lay across the eastern and southwestern sections of the rim.
Attached to the northeast is the remnant of an old formation that intrudes into Rabbi Levi, producing a straightened section of rim along that face. This unnamed formation has been almost completely obliterated, and is overlain in the northwest by Lindenau, and along the outer northeast side by Rothmann
Rothmann (crater)
Rothmann is an impact crater that is located in the southeastern part of the Moon's near side, about one crater diameter to the southwest of the Rupes Altai scarp. To the southwest is the slightly larger crater Lindenau....
.
The crater is named after the Medieval Jewish scholar Gersonides
Gersonides
Levi ben Gershon, better known by his Latinised name as Gersonides or the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG , philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, astronomer/astrologer. He was born at Bagnols in Languedoc, France...
.
Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Rabbi Levi.| Rabbi Levi |
Latitude | Longitude | Diameter |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 34.3° S | 22.7° E | 12 km |
| B | 34.5° S | 24.8° E | 13 km |
| C | 34.3° S | 27.0° E | 20 km |
| D | 35.4° S | 22.8° E | 10 km |
| E | 36.7° S | 22.1° E | 35 km |
| F | 36.0° S | 20.5° E | 12 km |
| G | 36.9° S | 22.0° E | 12 km |
| H | 36.4° S | 20.2° E | 8 km |
| J | 37.6° S | 22.7° E | 7 km |
| L | 34.7° S | 23.0° E | 13 km |
| M | 35.2° S | 23.2° E | 11 km |
| N | 36.4° S | 23.7° E | 8 km |
| O | 35.7° S | 25.1° E | 7 km |
| P | 34.5° S | 25.8° E | 15 km |
| Q | 33.7° S | 25.8° E | 6 km |
| R | 33.6° S | 28.2° E | 12 km |
| S | 34.2° S | 27.5° E | 14 km |
| T | 36.2° S | 22.4° E | 10 km |
| U | 35.6° S | 21.9° E | 14 km |