Huxley (moon crater)

Huxley
Huxley with Wallace ( LROC -WAC)
position	20.19 °  N , 4.55 °  W Coordinates: 20 ° 11 '24 "  N , 4 ° 33' 0"  W
diameter	3 km
depth	770 m
Card sheet	41 (PDF)
Named after	Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
Named since	1973
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Huxley is a small impact crater on the front of the moon in the Mare Imbrium plain, east of Wallace crater .

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1973 after the British biologist Thomas Henry Huxley .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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