Tucker (moon crater)
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| Tucker (bottom right) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 5.65 ° S , 88.16 ° O | |
| diameter | 7 km | |
| Card sheet | 81 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | Richard Hawley Tucker (1859-1952) | |
| Named since | 1979 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Tucker is a small impact crater on the eastern edge of the front of the moon to the east of the Mare Smythii plain , southeast of Warner crater and southwest of Lebesgue . The crater is bowl-shaped and hardly eroded.
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1979 after the American astronomer Richard Hawley Tucker .