Knox-Shaw (moon crater)
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| Knox-Shaw, Banachiewicz (bottom left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 5.34 ° N , 80.16 ° O | |
| diameter | 13 km | |
| Card sheet | 63 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | Harold Knox-Shaw (1885-1970) | |
| Named since | 1973 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Knox-Shaw is a relatively small, bowl-shaped impact crater on the far eastern edge of the lunar fore in the whale plane of Banachiewicz Crater .
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1973 after the British astronomer Harold Knox-Shaw .