Wallace (lunar crater)

This article is about the lunar crater. For the crater on Mars, see Wallace (Martian crater).

Wallace

Apollo 17 Mapping Camera image
Coordinates	20°18′N8°42′W / 20.3°N 8.7°W / 20.3; -8.7
Diameter	26 km
Depth	160 m
Colongitude	9° at sunrise
Eponym	Alfred R. Wallace

Wallace crater at the terminator. Apollo 17 image

Wallace is the remains of a lunar impact crater that has been flooded by lava. It was named after British natural historian Alfred Russel Wallace. ^[1] It lies in the southeastern part of Mare Imbrium, northeast of the crater Eratosthenes. The crater rim forms a somewhat polygonal outline, and is broken in the southeast. The floor is flat and devoid of significant features, but it is overlain by ray material from Copernicus to the southwest. The rim ascends to an altitude of 0.4 km above the lunar mare.

Satellite craters

By convention, these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint closest to Wallace.

Wallace	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	19.2° N	5.6° W	4 km
C	17.6° N	6.4° W	5 km
D	17.9° N	5.7° W	4 km
H	21.3° N	9.1° W	2 km
K	19.3° N	6.8° W	3 km
T	21.9° N	5.1° W	2 km

The following craters have been renamed by the IAU.

• Wallace B —See Huxley (lunar crater).

View

Wallace

Wallace crater and its satellite craters taken from Earth in 2012 at the University of Hertfordshire's Bayfordbury Observatory with the telescopes Meade LX200 14" and Lumenera Skynyx 2-1

References

1. "Wallace (lunar crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

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External links

• Wallace at The Moon Wiki
• Wood, Chuck (March 27, 2004). "What is a Dome? (and Surroundings)". Lunar Photo of the Day. Archived from the original on 2007-11-13.
• Wood, Chuck (May 6, 2009). "A Museum Piece". Lunar Photo of the Day.