Wright (moon crater)
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| Wright at the northern end of Vallis Bouvard ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 31.6 ° S , 86.7 ° W | |
| diameter | 39 km | |
| Card sheet | 91 (PDF) | |
| Named after |
Frederick Eugene Wright (1877–1953) Thomas Wright (1711–1786) William Hammond Wright (1871–1959) |
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| Named since | 1964 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Wright is an impact crater on the extreme southwestern edge of the front of the moon and is therefore either invisible as a result of the libration or appears severely distorted.
Its diameter is almost 39 kilometers. North of Wright is the Pettit crater .
To the southwest lies the Shaler crater and to the south of it the Vallis Bouvard .
The crater has a side crater, Wright A ; it is about half a crater diameter in the south-southwest, along the edge of the Montes Cordillera .
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 32.82 ° S , 87.3 ° W | 11 km | [1] |
The crater was officially named in 1964 by the IAU after the American astronomers Frederick Eugene Wright (1877-1953) and William Hammond Wright (1871-1959) and after the British philosopher Thomas Wright (1711-1786).