Kane (moon crater)

Kane

Kane Crater (Photo Lunar Orbiter 4 )

position

62.96 ° N , 25.84 ° O coordinates: 62 ° 57 '36 " N , 25 ° 50' 24" O

diameter

55 km

depth

570 m

Card sheet

13 (PDF)

Named after

Elisha Kent Kane (1820-1857).

Named since

1935

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

54.96

Kane is an impact crater on the northeastern edge of the front of the moon on the edge of Mare Frigoris between the craters C. Mayer in the west and Democritus in the east. The crater walls are eroded and the interior is flooded by the Mare Frigoris.

List of minor craters from Kane
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	61.22 ° N , 27.02 ° OMoon 61.22 02.27	6 km	[1]
F.	59.64 ° N , 23.2 ° EMoon 59.64 23.2	7 km	[2]
G	59.23 ° N , 25.32 ° EMoon 59.23 25.32	10 km	[3]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the American explorer Elisha Kent Kane .

Web links

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

Location of Kane

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