Warner (moon crater)

Warner

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

position

4.02 ° S , 87.33 ° O coordinates: 4 ° 1 '12 " S , 87 ° 19' 48" O

diameter

35 km

depth

250 m

Card sheet

81 (PDF)

Named after

Worcester Reed Warner (1846-1929)

Named since

1976

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

34.83

Warner is an impact crater on the eastern edge of the front of the moon in the east of the Mare Smythii plain , northeast of the Kiess crater and southeast of Runge . 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 engineer, entrepreneur and astronomer Worcester Reed Warner .

Web links

Commons : Warner (moon crater) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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