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Ginzel

Friedrich Karl; Austrian astronomer (1850-1926).

What Ginzel is

Ginzel is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on The Moon, 53.2 km across, centred at 14.3° N, 97.4° E in the Babcock quadrangle. It is the 944th largest named feature on The Moon and the 716th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Friedrich Karl; Austrian astronomer (1850-1926). The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1970, under the theme it applies to every crater on The Moon. Of the 1615 features of this class catalogued on The Moon, the naming categories run Germany (234), American (229), France (163), Great Britain (160).

Feature class
a circular depression, almost always an impact scar
Diameter
53.2 km
about a marathon
Coordinates
14.3° N, 97.4° E
Planetocentric, on The Moon
Name approved
1970
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Babcock
Map sheet on The Moon
Naming category
Austria
Europe

What it would take to settle Ginzel

The Moon scores 29.1 as a world. That number is the same for every square metre of it — but sunlight, water, radiation and the ground under your feet are not. This is the same question asked at 14.3° N, 97.4° E.

Settlement difficulty here
29.6/ 100
Typical for this world
The Moon overall
29.1
0.5 harder than the median site
Ranked
1113th
of 2,023 named places on The Moon

What this spot has going for it is sunlight 97% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on The Moon gets. What works against it is water outside the ice-bearing latitudes.

Computed from Ginzel's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 84% of the model's weight had a basis here, and one axis was dropped as not applicable to The Moon (radiation geometry). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on The Moon and are already counted in the world's own index, not again here.

What this cannot see: elevation. Slope, local shadowing and the polar “peaks of eternal light” — ridge tops near the poles of a barely tilted world that catch sun almost continuously while a crater floor kilometres away never does — need a terrain model this does not have. Where a real mission targets a pole, that is usually why.

Ginzel's satellite craters

The IAU names smaller craters around a major one by letter. Ginzel has 3, and each shares the parent's namesake rather than carrying one of its own.

Ginzel G 44.2 kmGinzel H 46.2 kmGinzel L 28 km

What is next to it

The largest crater features on The Moon

All 1,615 craters on The Moon — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.