Stanchion (moon crater)

Stanchion

Stanchion ( LROC -WAC)

position

2.54 ° S , 86.78 ° O coordinates: 2 ° 32 '24 " S , 86 ° 46' 48" O

diameter

39 km

depth

230 m

Card sheet

81 (PDF)

Named after

Carl Runge (1856-1927)

Named since

1973

Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

38.98

Runge is an impact crater on the eastern edge of the front of the moon to the east of the Mare Smythii plain , northwest of Warner crater and southeast of Haldane . The crater is very flat, since the interior of the lava the Mare was flooded.

In 1973 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) named the crater after the German mathematician Carl Runge .

Stanchion (top right) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)

Web links

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

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 .

[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 .