Brown (moon crater)

Brown

Brown (bottom right) and surroundings ( LROC- WAC)

position

46.49 ° S , 18.07 ° W Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 24 " S , 18 ° 4 ′ 12" W

diameter

34 km

depth

1810 m

Card sheet

111 (PDF)

Named after

Ernest William Brown (1866-1938)

Named since

1935

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

34.03

Brown is an impact crater to the southwest of the lunar front , southwest of Tycho crater and southeast of Wilhelm . The heavily eroded crater is overlaid in its southeastern part by the almost equally large Brown E secondary crater .

List of Brown's minor craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	48.15 ° S , 17.54 ° WMoon -48.15 -17.54	16 km	[1]
B.	44.72 ° S , 16.26 ° WMoon -44.72 -16.26	12 km	[2]
C.	47.58 ° S , 17.09 ° WMoon -47.58 -17.09	12 km	[3]
D.	46.08 ° S , 16.37 ° WMoon -46.08 -16.37	20 km	[4]
E.	46.86 ° S , 17.73 ° WMoon -46.86 -17.73	23 km	[5]
F.	46.92 ° S , 18.57 ° WMoon -46.92 -18.57	6 km	[6]
G	45.51 ° S , 17 ° WMoon -45.51 -17	5 km	[7]
K	46.7 ° S , 15.89 ° WMoon -46.7 -15.89	15 km	[8th]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the British astronomer and mathematician Ernest William Brown .

Web links

Brown in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Brown on The-Moon Wiki

Individual evidence

^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .

[1] John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .