Recht (Crater)

Recht
	Apollo 16 mapping camera image
Diameter	20 km
Depth	2.5 km
Colongitude	236° at sunrise

Short description: Crater on the Moon

Recht is a small impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It was named after the American mathematician and astronomer Albert William Recht.^[2] Is lies across the eastern rim of the much larger crater Ostwald. To the northeast of Recht is Meshcherskiy.

This is a bowl-shaped formation with an interior floor that is less than half the diameter of the crater. The inner walls have a higher albedo than the surrounding terrain, while the interior floor is about the same shade of grey.

Oblique view from Apollo 10
Oblique view from Apollo 16
Apollo 16 panoramic camera image of Ostwald crater, with Recht at lower right

References

↑ LTO-65B4 Recht
↑ "Recht (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

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External links

Recht at The Moon Wiki
"Featured Image: Boulder in Recht Crater". Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. NASA. March 8, 2011. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20110308-recht.html.

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[1] LTO-65B4 Recht

[2] "Recht (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.