Von Braun (moon crater)
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| position | 41.04 ° N , 78.13 ° W | |
| diameter | 60 km | |
| Card sheet | 22 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) | |
| Named since | 1994 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Von Braun is an impact crater on the northwestern edge of the front of the moon , on the western edge of Oceanus Procellarum . To the northwest lies the Gerard crater , and to the southwest lies the Lavoisier crater .
Like the Lavoisier E crater , which touches the western edge of von Braun, the interior of von Braun also has the fracture structures of a floor-fractured crater . The crater rim is heavily eroded.
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1994 after the German-American rocket engineer Wernher von Braun . Previously, the crater was designated Lavoisier D .