Flamsteed (crater)
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Coordinates | 4°30′S 44°18′W / 4.5°S 44.3°WCoordinates: 4°30′S 44°18′W / 4.5°S 44.3°W |
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Diameter | 21 km |
Depth | 2.2 km |
Colongitude | 44° at sunrise |
Eponym | John Flamsteed |
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Flamsteed is a small lunar impact crater located on the Oceanus Procellarum, which is named after British astronomer John Flamsteed.[1] It lies almost due east of the dark-hued Grimaldi, and north-northwest of the flooded Letronne bay on the south edge of the mare.
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The rim of this crater is not circular in form, having a bulging rim to the southeast. The interior is relatively flat and undistinguished by impacts. The crater lies within the southern rim of a crater that has been almost completely submerged by the basaltic lava flows that formed the Oceanus Procellarum. All that remains of this feature designated Flamsteed P are some low ridges and hills arranged in a circular formation.
The Surveyor 1 craft landed within the northeast rim of the buried Flamsteed P feature, about 50 kilometers north-northeast of the Flamsteed crater rim.
Satellite craters[]
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Flamsteed.
Flamsteed | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter |
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A | 7.9° S | 42.9° W | 11 km |
B | 5.9° S | 43.7° W | 10 km |
C | 5.5° S | 46.3° W | 9 km |
D | 3.2° S | 44.9° W | 6 km |
E | 3.7° S | 46.1° W | 2 km |
F | 4.7° S | 41.1° W | 5 km |
G | 4.8° S | 50.9° W | 46 km |
H | 5.9° S | 51.7° W | 4 km |
J | 6.6° S | 49.3° W | 5 km |
K | 3.1° S | 43.7° W | 4 km |
L | 3.4° S | 40.9° W | 4 km |
M | 2.4° S | 40.6° W | 4 km |
P | 3.2° S | 44.1° W | 112 km |
S | 3.4° S | 52.2° W | 4 km |
T | 3.1° S | 51.6° W | 24 km |
U | 3.6° S | 50.2° W | 4 km |
X | 2.3° S | 47.3° W | 3 km |
Z | 1.3° S | 47.8° W | 3 km |
References[]
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- Price, Fred W. (1988). The Moon Observer's Handbook. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33500-3.
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External links[]
- Lunar Orbiter 1 photo 192, showing the northeastern part of Flamsteed P, where Surveyor 1 landed
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