Yerkes (moon crater)
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| position | 14.57 ° N , 51.7 ° E | |
| diameter | 36 km | |
| Card sheet | 62 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Charles Tyson Yerkes (1837-1905) | |
| Named since | 1935 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Yerkes is an impact crater near the western edge of the Mare Crisium on the Moon . It is west of Picard Crater and south of Peirce Crater . To the southeast are the craters Greaves and Lick on the banks of the Mare .
In the past, the inside of the crater was almost completely flooded by lava , so that only a flat remnant of the former rim of the crater protrudes over the surrounding mare . This edge is widest in its western and southern parts, while in the east it becomes almost invisible and shows only a weak curved line in the lunar surface. The crater floor does not differ in its albedo from the nearby lunar sea, so that the formation hardly stands out from its surroundings. From the northern edge a low ridge runs in a north-northwest direction to the satellite crater 'Yerkes E'.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| E. | 15.88 ° N , 50.64 ° O | 10 km | [1] |
Web links
- Yerkes in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
- Yerkes on The-Moon Wiki
- Yerkes Crater in the "Digital Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon"
