Eddington (moon crater)
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| Eddington with Russell and Struve ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 21.48 ° N , 71.94 ° W | |
| diameter | 120 km | |
| Card sheet | 37 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) | |
| Named since | 1964 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Eddington is the lava- filled remnant of a lunar impact crater . It is located in the western part of the Oceanus Procellarum .
Its western edge covers the eastern edge of the Struve crater and in the east-southeast lies the small but well-known Seleucus crater . In the south is the Krafft crater .
The southern and southeastern rim wall have almost completely disappeared, which is why you can only see a few rocky outcrops and hills in the Mare , which run along the former crater. The crater is more like a bay of Oceanus Procellarum , which is open to the sea to the south. The bottom of the crater is practically flat and apart from the almost submerged Eddington P crater in the southeast sector, there are no other craters worth mentioning within the main crater. Should the crater ever have a central elevation, it can no longer be made out.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| P | 21.01 ° N , 71.08 ° W | 11 km | [1] |
Web links
- Eddington in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Eddington on The-Moon Wiki
- Eddington crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
