Peek (moon crater)
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position | 2.75 ° N , 86.93 ° O | |
diameter | 13 km | |
depth | 2340 m | |
Card sheet | 63 (PDF) | |
Named after | Bertrand Meigh Peek (1891-1965) | |
Named since | 1973 | |
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database |
Peek is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater on the front of the moon in the Mare Smythii plain , southeast of the Tacchini crater .
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1973 after the British astronomer Bertrand Meigh Peek .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ RJ Pike: Crater dimensions from Apollo data and supplemental sources. In: The Moon. Vol. 15, 1976, ISSN 0027-0903 , pp. 463-477, doi : 10.1007 / BF00562253 .