Turner (crater)
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Short description: Crater on the Moon
 Lunar Orbiter 4 image | |
| Diameter | 12 km |
|---|---|
| Depth | 2.6 km |
| Colongitude | 13° at sunrise |
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Oblique view of Turner from Apollo 16
Turner is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the Mare Insularum, near the Moon's equator. The crater was named after British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner.[1] It is located to the southeast of the crater Gambart. Turner is a circular, cone-shaped crater with inner walls that slope down to the midpoint. A similar-sized ghost crater is attached to the western rim, its interior floor submerged by lava and the surviving rim broken in the southwest.
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Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Turner.
| Turner | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1.1° S | 14.7° W | 6 km |
| B | 0.9° S | 10.6° W | 5 km |
| C | 2.4° S | 12.3° W | 5 km |
| F | 1.6° S | 14.1° W | 7 km |
| H | 2.8° S | 13.0° W | 4 km |
| K | 3.8° S | 13.4° W | 4 km |
| L | 3.4° S | 12.5° W | 5 km |
| M | 4.2° S | 11.8° W | 4 km |
| N | 2.9° S | 12.0° W | 4 km |
| Q | 1.0° S | 12.4° W | 3 km |
References
- ↑ "Turner (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
- Andersson, L. E.; Whitaker, E. A. (1982). NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature. NASA RP-1097.
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- Rükl, Antonín (1990). Atlas of the Moon. Kalmbach Books. ISBN 978-0-913135-17-4.
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