Wexler (moon crater)

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Wexler
Wexler Clementine.jpg
Wexler (image of the Clementine probe )
Wexler (Moon South Pole Region)
Wexler
position 68.92 °  S , 90.59 °  O coordinates: 68 ° 55 '12 "  S , 90 ° 35' 24"  O
diameter 52 km
depth 4630 m
Card sheet 139 (PDF)
Named after Harry Wexler (1911-1962)
Named since 1970
Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database

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Wexler is an impact crater in the extreme southeast of the lunar front , south of Petrov crater and north of Hale . The crater is badly eroded. The interior has a small central mountain .

List of minor craters from Wexler
Letter position diameter link
E. 68.65 °  S , 95.92 °  O 22 km [1]
H 70.42 °  S , 97.05 °  O 14 km [2]
U 68.31 °  S , 82.32 °  O 50 km [3]
V 67.98 °  S , 84.07 °  O 21 km [4]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the American meteorologist Harry Wexler .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John E. Westfall: Atlas of the Lunar Terminator. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2000, ISBN 0-521-59002-7 .