Back (moon crater)
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| position | 1.31 ° N , 80.63 ° O | |
| diameter | 35 km | |
| depth | 2900 m | |
| Card sheet | 63 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Ernst EA Back (1881–1959) | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Back is a small impact crater near the eastern edge of the moon . It is located on the northwestern edge of Mare Smythii and its northeastern edge borders on the Schubert crater . To the west is the Jenkins crater and to the southwest is the pair of twins formed by the Weierstrass and Van Vleck craters .
Back is almost circular and has a narrow, sharp-edged crater wall without significant traces of erosion.
Individual evidence
- ^ John Edward Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 , p. 270
Web links
- Back in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Back crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
