Wilson (moon crater)

Wilson

position

69.33 ° S , 42.83 ° W Coordinates: 69 ° 19 '48 " S , 42 ° 49' 48" W.

diameter

67 km

depth

4430 m

Card sheet

136 (PDF)

Named after

Alexander Wilson (1714–1786)
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959)
Ralph Elmer Wilson (1886–1960)

Named since

1935

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

66.57

Wilson is an impact crater in the extreme southwest of the front of the moon , southeast of the Kircher crater and west of Klaproth . The rim of the crater is heavily eroded and the crater floor is largely flat.

List of Wilson minor craters
Letter	position	diameter	link
A.	71.24 ° S , 53.85 ° WMoon -71.24 -53.85	16 km	[1]
C.	71.93 ° S , 45.42 ° WMoon -71.93 -45.42	26 km	[2]
E.	72.52 ° S , 55.39 ° WMoon -72.52 -55.39	24 km	[3]
F.	70.45 ° S , 39.67 ° WMoon -70.45 -39.67	13 km	[4]

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Scottish astronomer Alexander Wilson , the Scottish physicist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson and the US astronomer Ralph Elmer Wilson .

Web links

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