Peek (moon crater)

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Peek
Peek (moon equatorial region)
Peek
position 2.75 °  N , 86.93 °  O coordinates: 2 ° 45 '0 "  N , 86 ° 55' 48"  O
diameter 13 km
depth 2340 m
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Named after Bertrand Meigh Peek (1891-1965)
Named since 1973
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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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 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .