Carpenter (moon crater)

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Carpenter
Carpenter - Anaximander - LROC - WAC.JPG
Carpenter with side craters (north above); LROC- WAC
Carpenter (Moon North Pole Region)
Carpenter
position 69.53 °  N , 51.2 °  W Coordinates: 69 ° 31 '48 "  N , 51 ° 12' 0"  W.
diameter 59 km
depth 4170 m
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Named after James Carpenter (1840–1899)
Edwin Francis Carpenter (1898–1963)
Named since 1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Carpenter is an impact crater on the Moon on the northwestern edge of the Moon's front . It is north of Anaximander and southeast of Anaximenes . The wall has terraces and there is a two-part central mountain .

List of Carpenter minor craters
Letter position diameter link
T 70.27 °  N , 58.64 °  W 9 km [1]
U 70.62 °  N , 57.04 °  W 25 km [2]
V 71.9 °  N , 54.66 °  W 6 km [3]
W. 72.37 °  N , 60.19 °  W 10 km [4]
Y 71.86 °  N , 63.01 °  W 8 kilometers [5]

The crater was named in 1935 by the IAU after the astronomers James Carpenter (1840–1899) and Edwin Francis Carpenter (1898–1963).

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