McDonald (moon crater)
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| McDonald Crater | ||
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| position | 30.37 ° N , 20.89 ° W | |
| diameter | 7 km | |
| depth | 1600 m | |
| Card sheet | 40 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after |
William Johnson McDonald (1844–1926), Thomas Logie MacDonald (1901–1973) |
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| Named since | 1973 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
McDonald is a small impact crater on the northwestern front of the moon in the Mare Imbrium plain . It is north of Lambert crater and northwest of Timocharis .
The crater was officially named in 1973 by the IAU after the American banker and benefactor William Johnson McDonald and the Scottish selenographer Thomas Logie MacDonald .
Web links
- McDonald in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- McDonald 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 .