What is "goldschmidt"

Goldschmidt is a large lunar crater of the variety commonly termed a walled plain. It lies in the northern part of the Moon's near side, and appears oval in shape due to foreshortening. The rim is actually relatively circular, although the western rim is overlain by the prominent crater Anaxagoras. Nearly attached to the southeast rim is Barrow, and the two formations are separated by a rugged rise about 30 kilometers across. Further to the south is Epigenes.

The heavily eroded outer rim of Goldschmidt is rugged and irregular, with an inner wall that is incised in several locations by small impacts. Much of the western rim no longer exists, due to the overlapping Anaxagoras and the smaller Anaxagoras A, and the ejecta from these formations covers the western third of the interior floor. The remaining floor is nearly level and flat, most likely having been resurfaced by lava flows. However the surface is now pock-marked by a multitude of tiny craterlets, the most prominent being the small Goldschmidt A.

Goldschmidt is a German surname meaning " Goldsmith". It may refer to:

• Adolph Goldschmidt (1863–1944), art historian
• Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996), composer
• Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt (1807-1851), astronomer, mathematician, and physicist
• David M. Goldschmidt (born 1942), American mathematician
• Hans Goldschmidt (1861–1923), chemist, son of Theodor Goldschmidt
• Hermann Goldschmidt (1802–1866), an astronomer and painter
• John Goldschmidt (born 1943), film director/producer
• Lazarus Goldschmidt (1871–1950), German writer and translator
• Levin Goldschmidt (1829–1897), jurist
• Márcia Goldschmidt (1962), Brazilian TV presenter
• Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt (1819–1887), publisher and writer
• Neil Goldschmidt (born 1940), U.S. politician
• Otto Goldschmidt (1829–1907), German composer
• Pascal Goldschmidt (–), cardiologist, and dean of University of Miami School of Medicine
• Paul Goldschmidt (born 1987), American baseball player
• Pinchas Goldschmidt (born 1963), Chief Rabbi of Moscow and President of the CER
• Richard Benedikt Goldschmidt (1878–1958), geneticist
• Robert Goldschmidt (1877–1935), Belgian physicist
• Rudolf Goldschmidt (1876–1950), engineer and inventor
• Theodor Goldschmidt (1817–1875), chemist
• Tijs Goldschmidt (born 1953), Dutch writer and evolutionary biologist
• Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (1853–1933), chemist
• Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (1888–1947), geochemist
• Victor Goldschmidt (philosopher) (1914–1981), French historian of philosophy

• Goldschmidt family
• Goldschmid
• Goldschmied
• Goldschmitt
• Goldsmith
• Aurifaber

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