Barrow (moon crater)
| Barrow | ||
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| Barrow with side craters (north above; LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 71.37 ° N , 7.98 ° O | |
| diameter | 89 km | |
| depth | 2380 m | |
| Card sheet | 3 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Barrow is an impact crater on the moon to the north of the lunar front . It lies between Goldschmidt in the northwest and the large crater plain of Meton in the northeast. In the southwest lies the W. Bond crater . The crater is badly eroded. The south-western part of the wall is covered by the younger Barrow A crater .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 70.56 ° N , 3.86 ° E | 27 km | [1] |
| B. | 70.19 ° N , 10.52 ° O | 16 km | [2] |
| C. | 73.02 ° N , 11.19 ° E | 28 km | [3] |
| E. | 68.99 ° N , 3.4 ° O | 18 km | [4] |
| F. | 69.15 ° N , 1.84 ° E | 19 km | [5] |
| G | 70.11 ° N , 0.26 ° O | 29 km | [6] |
| H | 69.26 ° N , 5.96 ° E | 5 km | [7] |
| K | 69.3 ° N , 11.71 ° E | 46 km | [8th] |
| M. | 67.59 ° N , 9.08 ° E | 6 km | [9] |
The crater was named by the IAU in 1935 after the English clergyman and mathematician Isaac Barrow .
