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Rabbi Levi [34,7S, 23,6E]

Age : Pré-Nectarien

Auteur du nom: Riccioli (1651)

Levi ben Gershom

(1288-1344). Philosophe, mathématicien

et astronome espagnol

Rabbi Levi


 

Rabbi levi est un cratère de 81 Km situé sur le plateau continental dans une région particulièrement dense en cratères. Ainsi sur la partie orientale Un champ dense de petits cratères à impacté la région, pulvérisant le mur oriental qui a perdu son aspect originel. Au Sud-est de Rabbi Levi on trouve un cratère Riccius (71 Km) en mauvais état, à cause de ce bombardement intensif. Le mur Nord-est est co-jointif avec un ancien cratère fantôme occupé par le plus récent Lindernau (53 Km, 2930 m). Sur le versant Nord de Rabbi Levi se trouve le cratère Zagut (84 Km), lui aussi en mauvais état. La muraille de Rabbi Levi est fortement érodée et arrondie. Le fond est plat avec la présence de monticules et craterlets ainsi que des cratères plus importants.

 

 (English version, Wikipedia copyright)

 

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 crater just to the north-northwest, the heavily impacted Riccius crater to the southeast, and Lindenau crater 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 the Rabbi Levi crater, producing a straightened section of rim along that face. This unnamed formation has been almost completely obliterated, and is overlaid in the northwest by Lindenau, and along the outer northeast side by Rothmann crater.

 

Rabbi Levi