Turner Crater ( lat. Turner ) is a small impact crater in the equatorial region of the visible side of the moon . The name was given in honor of the English astronomer and seismologist Herbert Turner (1861–1930) and approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1935.
| Turner | |
|---|---|
| lat Turner | |
 Snapshot of the Lunar Orbiter Probe - IV . | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 11.2 km |
| Deepest | 2630 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Herbert Turner (1861-1930) - English astronomer and seismologist. |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
Content
Crater Description
The nearest neighbors of the Turner crater are the Gambar crater in the northwest; Semmering crater in the east-northeast; Lalande crater in the southeast and Fra Mauro crater in the southwest. To the west-northwest of the crater is the Sea of Islands ; in the north-west of the Carpathian Mountains ; in the north is the Bay of Heat ; in the east, Central Bay ; in the south Sea of Clouds ; in the South-West Sea Poznannoe [2] . The selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater are , diameter 11.2 km [3] , depth 2630 m [4] .
The crater has a circular cup shape and is practically not destroyed. A shaft with a clearly defined sharp edge and a smooth inner slope with a high albedo . The height of the shaft above the surrounding terrain reaches 410 m [5] , the volume of the crater is approximately 50 km ³ [5] . In the west, the remains of a crater of equal diameter are adjacent to Turner Crater.
Crater Turner is included in the list of craters with dark radial stripes on the inner slope of the Association of Moon and Planetary Astronomy (ALPO) [6] and refers to the number of craters in which temperature anomalies were recorded during eclipses . This is explained by the fact that such craters are of small age and the rocks did not have time to become covered with regolith , which has a thermoisolating effect.
Satellite craters
| Turner | Coordinates | Diameter, km |
|---|---|---|
| A | 5.3 | |
| B | 4.6 | |
| C | 4.6 | |
| F | 6.9 | |
| H | 3.9 | |
| K | 3.6 | |
| L | 5.1 | |
| M | 3.1 | |
| N | 3.3 | |
| Q | 2.7 |
- Satellite crater Turner F refers to the number of craters in which temperature anomalies are recorded during eclipses.
See also
- List of craters on the moon
- Moon crater
- Morphological catalog of the craters of the moon
- Planetary Nomenclature
- Selenography
- Mineralogy of the Moon
- Geology of the Moon
- Late heavy bombardment
Notes
- ↑ Map of the visible side of the moon.
- ↑ Turner Crater on LAC-76 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 .
- ↑ The list of craters with dark radial stripes of the Association of Moon and Planetary Astronomy (ALPO) Archived on December 3, 2013.
Links
- Digital photographic atlas of the moon.
- Photos of the crater from the board of Apollo 16.
- Crater Turner on the map LAC-76.
- Selenological map of the vicinity of the crater.
- Crater Turner on the map LM-76.
- Crater Turner on the map AIC76B.
- Crater description on The Moon-Wiki.
- Andersson, LE, and EA Whitaker, NASA Catalog of Lunar Nomenclature, NASA Reference Publication 1097, October 1982.