Rankine (moon crater)
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| position | 3.88 ° S , 71.49 ° O | |
| diameter | 10 km | |
| depth | 2700 m | |
| Card sheet | 81 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) | |
| Named since | 1976 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Rankine is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater on the eastern edge of the moon's front . It lies west of the Gilbert crater and north of van Behring inside the heavily eroded Maclaurin B crater .
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1976 after the Scottish physicist and engineer William John Macquorn Rankine .
Web links
- Rankine in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Rankine 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 .