Spörer (moon crater)

Spörer
Spörer (top left) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)
position	4.35 °  S , 1.82 °  W Coordinates: 4 ° 21 '0 "  S , 1 ° 49' 12"  W
diameter	27 km
depth	320 m
Card sheet	77 (PDF)
Named after	Gustav Spörer (1822–1895)
Named since	1935
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

Spörer is an impact crater on the front of the moon southeast of the Sinus Medii , southeast of the Flammarion crater and north of Herschel . The crater is heavily eroded, the rim of the crater in the south almost eroded.

List of side craters of Spörer

Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	3.46 °  S , 2.12 °  W	5 km	[1]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the German astronomer Gustav Spörer .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .