The Swift crater ( lat. Swift ), not to be confused with the Swift crater on Deimos , is a small impact crater in the northwestern part of the Sea of Crises on the visible side of the Moon . The name was given in honor of the American astronomer Lewis Swift (1820-1913) and was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1935.
| Swift | |
|---|---|
| lat Swift | |
 Snapshot of the Lunar Orbiter Probe - IV . Crater Swift at the top, bottom of the crater pier . | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 10.1 km |
| Deepest | 2040 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Lewis Swift (1820-1913) - American astronomer. |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
Content
Crater Description
The nearest neighbors of the crater are the Fredholm crater in the west-south-west; Crater Tisseran in the west-north-west; Cleomed crater in the north; Eckert crater in the east-southeast and Pierce crater in the south. In the west and north of the Swift crater is the Oppel Ridge [1] . The selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater are , diameter 10.1 km [2] , depth 2040 m [3] .
The Swift crater has a circular cup shape with a small flat bottom area. The shaft is clearly delineated, the inner slope is smooth, with a high albedo . The height of the shaft above the surrounding terrain reaches 370 m [4] , the volume of the crater is approximately 40 km³ [4] . According to morphological features, the crater belongs to the BIO type (by the name of a typical representative of this class - the Bio crater).
Before obtaining its own name in 1976, the crater had the designation Pierce B (in the designation system of so-called satellite craters located in the vicinity of a crater having its own name).
Satellite craters
None.
See also
- List of craters on the moon
- Moon crater
- Morphological catalog of craters of the moon
- Planetary Nomenclature
- Selenography
- Mineralogy of the Moon
- Geology of the Moon
- Late heavy bombardment
Notes
- ↑ Swift Crater on LAC-44 map
- ↑ Directory of the International Astronomical Union
- ↑ John E. Westfalls 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 board of Apollo-15, Apollo-17.
- Crater Swift on the map LAC-44.
- Selenological map of the vicinity of the crater.
- Topographic map of the vicinity of the crater.
- Crater description on The Moon-Wiki.
- Andersson, LE, and EA Whitaker, NASA Catalog of Lunar Nomenclature, NASA Reference Publication 1097, October 1982.