Talbot (crater)

Short description: Crater on the Moon

Talbot

Apollo 15 mapping camera image

Diameter| 12.36 km
Depth| 0.41 km[1]
Colongitude| 275° at sunrise

Talbot is a small lunar impact crater on the Mare Smythii, near the eastern limb of the Moon. It lies between a pair of larger, flooded craters, with Runge to the west and Haldane to the west-northwest. The crater is entirely surrounded by the dark lunar mare. It is a circular, bowl-shaped formation with an almost featureless interior floor. The outer rim has a slightly higher albedo than the surrounding terrain, but the floor is as dark as the mare.

The crater's name was approved by the IAU in 1976.[2]

## References

1. ↑ LTO-81B2 Runge, Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap (LTO) Series, Defense Mapping Agency, Scale: 1:250,000. 1973.
2. ↑ Talbot, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)

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