Fleming Crater ( lat. Fleming ) is a large ancient impact crater in the northern hemisphere of the far side of the Moon . The name was given in honor of the British bacteriologist Alexander Fleming (1881–1955) and the Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming (1857–1911); approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1970. The formation of the crater belongs to the nectar period [1] .
| Fleming | |
|---|---|
| lat Fleming | |
 A picture from the side of Apollo 16 . | |
| Specifications | |
| Diameter | 126.4 km |
| Deepest | 2900 m |
| Title | |
| Eponym | Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) - British bacteriologist ; William Paton Stevens Fleming (1857 - 1911) - Scottish astronomer. |
| Location | |
| Heavenly body | Moon |
Crater Description
The immediate neighbors of the crater are the Hertz Crater in the west-south-west; Chan Han Crater in the northeast; Lobachevsky crater in the south-south-east and Al-Khorezmi crater in the south-south-west [3] . The selenographic coordinates of the center of the crater are , diameter 126.4 km [4] , depth 2.9 km [1]
Fleming Crater has a polygonal shape and is significantly destroyed over a long time of its existence. The shaft is smoothed, along the entire perimeter marked by craters of various sizes. The inner slope of the shaft with smoothed remains of a terrace-like structure. The shaft height above the surrounding area reaches 1520 m [1] , the volume of the crater is approximately 11350 km³ [1] . The bottom of the bowl is relatively flat, dotted with small craters, with individual short ridges and hills, in the center of the bowl is a low ridge stretching from south to north, and a noticeable bowl-shaped crater is located in the southeast of the latter.
Before receiving its own name in 1970 it was called “Crater 203” [5] .
Satellite Craters
| Fleming | Coordinates | Diameter, km |
|---|---|---|
| D | 24.7 | |
| N | 23.1 | |
| W | 51.9 | |
| Y | 28.8 |
Gallery
A picture from the side of Apollo 11 . A picture from the side of Apollo 14 .
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
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 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 .
- ↑ Map of the far side of the moon.
- ↑ Fleming Crater on the LAC-64 map.
- ↑ Handbook of the International Astronomical Union
- ↑ Lunar Farside Chart (LFC-1A) 2nd Edition October 1967.