Talbot (moon crater)

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Talbot
Kiess + Runge - LROC - WAC.JPG
Talbot (top center) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC)
Talbot (moon equatorial region)
Talbot
position 2.51 °  S , 85.29 °  O coordinates: 2 ° 30 '36 "  S , 85 ° 17' 24"  O
diameter 12 km
depth 300 m
Card sheet 81 (PDF)
Named after William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877)
Named since 1976
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Talbot is an impact crater on the eastern edge of the lunar front , in the Mare Smythii plain , southeast of Haldane crater and west of Runge . The crater is very flat because of the lavas of Mare largely flooded.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1976 after the British astronomer and photography pioneer William Henry Fox Talbot .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  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 .