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Hawke (crater)

Topic: Astronomy

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Short description: Lunar impact crater
Hawke
Normal grotrian-clem1.jpg
Clementine mosaic of Grotrian, with Hawke below center
Diameter13.2 km
DepthUnknown
Colongitude233° at sunrise
Oblique view of Hawke from LRO

Hawke is a lunar impact crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies within the larger Grotrian, located to the north of the huge walled plain Schrödinger, within the radius of that formation's outer blanket of ejecta.

The crater's name was approved by the IAU on 16 March 2018. It is named after the American lunar scientist Bernard Ray Hawke (1946-2015).[1]

References

  1. ↑ Hawke Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)

External links

  • Hawke Crater, LRO Camera team, Posted by David Portree on May 3, 2018 20:18 UTC.



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