Albert Crater ( lat. Albert ) is a tiny impact crater in the western part of the Rainy Sea on the visible side of the Moon , at the landing site of the Luna-17 spacecraft with Lunokhod-1 . The name is given in the Russian male name in honor of the flight engineer of the second teleoperator control of the Lunokhods Albert Evstafievich Kozhevnikov and approved by the International Astronomical Union in 2012. Due to the small size of the crater according to the MAC rules, a personal name was chosen for it, in contrast to the names of large craters called in honor of specific scientists.
| Albert | |
|---|---|
| lat Albert | |
 Lunokhod-1 route map | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 0.1 km |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Russian male name, in honor of the flight engineer of the second calculation of the teleoperator control of Lunokhods Albert Evstafievich Kozhevnikov |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
Content
Crater Description
The crater is located approximately 125 meters northwest of the end point of Lunokhod-1 route. In addition to this crater on the Lunokhod-1 route, the craters Vasya , Nicolas , Slava , Igor , Kostya , Vitya , Gena , Borya , Valera , Kolya and Leonid got their own names. The selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater are , diameter 0.1 km [1] .
The crater has a bowl-shaped shape and is streaked with many even more tiny craters.
Satellite Craters
Are absent
See also
- List of Craters on the Moon
- Lunar crater
- Morphological catalog of Moon Craters
- Planetary nomenclature
- Selenography
- Mineralogy of the Moon
- Geology of the moon
- Late heavy bombardment
Notes
Links
- Map of the Western Sea of Rains and the Rainbow Bay
- Selenological map of the vicinity of the crater
- Lunokhod-1 route map
- Description of the crater on The Moon-Wiki
- Dovgan V. G. Methods and methods for teleoperator control of lunar rovers (on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Lunokhod-2 expedition) // Materials of the Eighth All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “Perspective Systems and Control Problems”. - March 2013. - S. 195–207 . Archived February 22, 2014.
- Dovgan, V.G. Lunar Odyssey of Russian Cosmonautics. From “Dreams” to Lunokhods / V. G. Dovgan; South Federal University. - Rostov-on-Don; Publishing House of the Southern Federal University, 2015. - 307 p. ISBN 978-5-9275-1532-5 .
- Andersson, LE, and EA Whitaker, NASA Catalog of Lunar Nomenclature, NASA Reference Publication 1097, October 1982.