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{{Short description|Crater on the Moon}}
{{Infobox Lunar crater
| image       = Sherlock crater location AS17-151-23251.jpg
| caption     = Location of Sherlock crater in Taurus–Littrow valley. South Massif is at lower left, North Massif is at top center, and Sculptured Hills are at upper right. Scale bar is 5 km
| coordinates = {{coord|20.15|N|30.79|E|globe:moon_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| diameter    = 520 m<ref name=GPN>[http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/5484 Sherlock], Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)</ref>
| depth       = 
| colong      = 
| eponym      = Astronaut-named feature
}}
[[Image:Sherlock crater AS17-P-2750 ASU.jpg|thumb|right|240px|Apollo 17 panoramic camera image]]
[[File:Sherlock carater rim AS17-143-21885.jpg|thumb|left|500px|The Apollo 17 astronauts took this photo of the rim of Sherlock from their lunar rover on their way back to the [[Engineering:Apollo Lunar Module|lunar module]] from Van Serg crater.]]
'''Sherlock''' is a feature on Earth's [[Astronomy:Moon|Moon]], a crater in [[Astronomy:Taurus–Littrow|Taurus–Littrow]] valley.  Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt drove their [[Astronomy:Lunar Roving Vehicle|rover]] to the north of it in 1972, on the [[Engineering:Apollo 17|Apollo 17]] mission.  They photographed the rim, as shown below.

Sherlock is about 1&nbsp;km east of the Apollo 17 landing site.  To the south of it is Steno crater and to the north are [[Astronomy:Van Serg (crater)|Van Serg]] and [[Astronomy:Shakespeare (lunar crater)|Shakespeare]].

The crater was named by the astronauts after the fictional Sherlock Holmes from the works of [[Biography:Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]].<ref>[https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.site.html The Valley of Taurus–Littrow], Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal, Corrected Transcript and Commentary Copyright 1995 by Eric M. Jones</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LPST/43d1s2/ 43D1S2(25) Apollo 17 Traverses] at Lunar and Planetary Institute
*[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17pp-geosynth.pdf Geological Investigation of the Taurus–Littrow Valley: Apollo 17 Landing Site]

[[Category:Impact craters on the Moon]]
[[Category:Apollo 17]]

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