Hooke (moon crater)

Hooke

Hooke and Umgebung ( LROC -WAC)

position

41.1 ° N , 54.83 ° E Coordinates: 41 ° 6 '0 " N , 54 ° 49' 48" E

diameter

33 km

depth

1470 m

Card sheet

27 (PDF)

Named after

Robert Hooke (1635-1703)

Named since

1935

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

33.03

Hooke is an impact crater on the northeastern front of the moon , northwest of the large Messala crater and southeast of the roughly equal Shuckburgh . The inside is flat, the crater wall is eroded.

List of Hooke's minor craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
D.	40.65 ° N , 55.78 ° OMoon 40.65 55.78	19 km	[1]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the British physicist Robert Hooke .

Web links

Hooke in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Hooke 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 .