Neujmin (crater)

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Neujmin
AS15-M-1852.jpg
Neujmin (lower left) and Waterman from Apollo 15. NASA  photo.
Coordinates 26°41′S125°10′E / 26.68°S 125.17°E / -26.68; 125.17
Diameter 97.03 km (60.29 mi)
Depth 3.5 km (2.2 mi) [1] [2]
Colongitude 236° at sunrise
Eponym Grigory N. Neujmin
Oblique view facing east with a high sun angle, from Apollo 8, showing the dark-halo crater within. Neujmin crater AS08-12-2196.jpg
Oblique view facing east with a high sun angle, from Apollo 8, showing the dark-halo crater within.
High resolution view of the unnamed dark-halo crater. The halo of dark ejecta itself is visible but not prominent in this photo due to a low sun angle. Dark-halo crater in Neujmin AS15-P-9597.jpg
High resolution view of the unnamed dark-halo crater. The halo of dark ejecta itself is visible but not prominent in this photo due to a low sun angle.
Lunar Orbiter 3 image Neujmin crater 3121 med.jpg
Lunar Orbiter 3 image

Neujmin is a lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side. It is nearly attached to the west-southwest of the smaller crater Waterman, and lies to the southwest of the prominent Tsiolkovskiy.

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This is an eroded crater formation that has been somewhat deformed by subsequent impacts. The circular crater Neujmin P lies across the southwestern rim. There are multiple small craterlets along the northwestern rim and inner wall, most likely secondary impacts from Tsiolkovskiy, and both the northern and southern rims are disrupted.

There is a dark-halo crater on the floor of Neujmin, which typically indicates that darker material, such as mare lava, exists below the present surface.

The crater was named after Soviet astronomer Grigory N. Neujmin by the IAU in 1970. [3]

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 Neujmin.

NeujminLatitudeLongitudeDiameter
P28.5° S124.2° E38 km
Q30.0° S121.8° E17 km
T27.1° S122.0° E24 km

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References

  1. LTO-101C2 Waterman, Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap (LTO) Series, Publisher: Defense Mapping Agency, Scale: 1:250,000.
  2. LTO-101C1 Neujmin, Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap (LTO) Series, Publisher: Defense Mapping Agency, Scale: 1:250,000.
  3. Neujmin, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)