Crael Crater ( lat. Crile ) is a small impact crater in the northeastern part of the Swamp of Sleep on the visible side of the Moon . The name was given in honor of the American surgeon George Washington Creel (1864-1943) and approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1976.
| Krill | |
|---|---|
| lat Crile | |
 Shot of the Lunar Orbiter - IV probe. | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 9.3 km |
| Deepest | 2020 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | George Washington Creel (1864-1943) - American surgeon. |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
Content
Crater Description
The closest neighbors of the Krill Crater are Lyell Crater in the west; Proclus crater in the north-northeast; Glacier crater in the east-southeast and Watt and Leonardo Da Vinci craters in the south. To the west of the crater is the Sea of Tranquility ; in the east - the Sea of Crisis , in the south-west - the Bay of Concord [2] . Selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater are , diameter 9.3 km [3] , depth 2 km [4] .
The Krill Crater has a circular bowl shape. The shaft is slightly smoothed, the inner slope of the shaft is smooth. The shaft height above the surrounding area reaches 330 m [5] , the volume of the crater is approximately 30 km³ [5] . According to morphological characteristics, the crater belongs to the ALC type (according to the name of a typical representative of this class - Al-Battani Crater C ).
Before receiving its own name in 1976, the crater was designated Proclus F (in the designation of the so-called satellite craters located in the vicinity of a crater with its own name).
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
- ↑ Map of the visible side of the moon.
- ↑ Krill Crater on the LAC-61 map.
- ↑ Handbook of the International Astronomical Union
- ↑ John E. Westfall's Atlas of the Lunar Terminator, Cambridge Univ. Press (2000)
- ↑ 1 2 Lunar Impact Crater Database . Losiak A., Kohout T., O'Sulllivan K., Thaisen K., Weider S. (Lunar and Planetary Institute, Lunar Exploration Intern Program, 2009); updated by Öhman T. in 2011. Archived page .
Links
- Digital photographic atlas of the moon.
- Pictures of the crater from the side of Apollo 15, Apollo 17.
- Krill Crater on LAC-61 map.
- Selenological map of the vicinity of the crater.
- Topographic map of the vicinity of the crater.
- Description of the crater on The Moon-Wiki.
- Andersson, LE, and EA Whitaker, NASA Catalog of Lunar Nomenclature, NASA Reference Publication 1097, October 1982.