Slocum (moon crater)

Slocum

Slocum (middle right) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)

position

3.16 ° S , 89.05 ° E Coordinates: 3 ° 9 '36 " S , 89 ° 3' 0" E

diameter

12 km

depth

480 m

Card sheet

81 (PDF)

Named after

Frederick Slocum (1873-1944)

Named since

1976

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

12.33

Slocum is a small impact crater on the eastern edge of the front of the moon in the east of the Mare Smythii plain , northeast of the Warner crater and southeast of Runge . The crater is very flat, since the interior of the lava the Mare was flooded.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1976 after the American astronomer Frederick Slocum .

Web links

Slocum in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Slocum 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 .