Swasey (moon crater)

Swasey

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

position

5.51 ° S , 89.65 ° O coordinates: 5 ° 30 '36 " S , 89 ° 39' 0" O

diameter

25 km

depth

450 m

Card sheet

81 (PDF)

Named after

Ambrose Swasey (1846-1937)

Named since

1976

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

24.77

Swasey is an impact crater on the eastern edge of the front of the moon in the east of the Mare Smythii plain , west of the Hume crater and southeast of Warner . 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 inventor and astronomer Ambrose Swasey .

Web links

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

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