Krusenstern (crater)

Krusenstern (crater)

lunar crater data
latitude=26.2
N_or_S=S
longitude=5.9
E_or_W=E
diameter=47 km
depth=1.6 km
colong=355
eponym=Adam J. Krusenstern

Krusenstern is a lunar crater that lies amidst the battered terrain in the southern part of the Moon's near side. Nearly attached to the east-southeast rim is the Apianus crater. Less than a crater diameter to the southwest is the prominent Werner crater. Krusenstern is intruding into a large circular plain to the north designated 'Playfair G'. Playfair crater lies to the northeast. It is 47 kilometers in diameter, and its walls reach a height of 1,600 meters."Autostar Suite Astronomer Edition". CD-ROM. Meade, April 2006.] [cite web
title=IDENTIKIT | work=luna.e-cremona.it
url=http://www.luna.e-cremona.it/idkt345.htm
accessdate=October 25
accessyear=2007
]

The outer rim of this formation has been heavily worn by impact erosion, leaving an irregular ring of rising ridges and an inner wall incised by impacts. A joined pair of craters, including 'Krusenstern A', lie along the eastern rim. The interior floor of Krusenstern is a nearly featureless plain, marked only by a few tiny craterlets. [cite book
first=Antonín | last=Rükl | authorlink=Antonín Rükl
year=1990 | title=Atlas of the Moon
publisher=Kalmbach Books
id=ISBN 0-913135-17-8
] The crater is from the Pre-Nectarian period, 4.55 to 3.92 billion years ago.

It is named after the early 19th century Baltic German explorer in Russian service, Adam Johann Krusenstern.

atellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Krusenstern crater. [cite book
author=Bussey, B.; Spudis, P.,
year=2004 | title=The Clementine Atlas of the Moon
publisher=Cambridge University Press | location=New York
id=ISBN 0-521-81528-2
]

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