Bancroft (moon crater)
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| position | 28.07 ° N , 6.43 ° W | |
| diameter | 13 km | |
| depth | 2490 m | |
| Card sheet | 41 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1867-1953) | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Bancroft is a small, round, and bowl-shaped impact crater southwest of Archimedes crater in the Mare Imbrium .
From the edge of Bancroft a wide, shallow depression runs south-east to the Archimedes Mountains . In the southwest and west of the crater the shore of the lunar sea shows some cracks.
Before 'Bancroft' was given its proper name by the IAU in 1976 , it was known as 'Archimedes A'.
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 2000, p. 270
Web links
- Bancroft in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Bancroft crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
