Warner (moon crater)
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Warner (middle right) and surroundings ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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position | 4.02 ° S , 87.33 ° 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 |
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
Individual evidence
- ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .