Clerke (moon crater)
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| Clerke and Rimae Littrow (photo taken by Apollo 17 ) | ||
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| position | 21.68 ° N , 29.79 ° O | |
| diameter | 7 km | |
| depth | 1440 m | |
| Card sheet | 42 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907). | |
| Named since | 1973 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Clerke is a small impact crater near the eastern shore part of the Mare Serenitatis on the moon . The roughly circular, cup-shaped crater lies in the middle of a system of grooves known as Rimae Littrow , which is named after the Littrow crater to the east . It has a relatively high albedo . The landing site of Apollo 17 is located in a valley southeast of the crater .
Before his name change by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1973 was Clerke as Littrow B referred.
The Catena Littrow crater chain lies north of Clerke .
The crater was named after the astronomer Agnes Mary Clerke .
Individual evidence
- ^ John Edward Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 , p. 272
- ↑ Sylvia Paletschek: Topic: Popularization of Science, limited preview in the Google book search
Web links
- Clerke in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Clerk on The-Moon Wiki
- Crater Clerke in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
