Astronomy:Guest (lunar crater)
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Short description: Crater on the Moon
 Apollo 15 panoramic camera image | |
| Diameter | 19.79 km[1] |
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Guest is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just west of the large crater Fermi and north of Izsak. Guest overlies an unnamed crater of similar size to the north, forming a pair. With its high albedo, the crater is probably young.[2]
The crater is named after the British geologist, vulcanologist and planetary scientist John Guest by the IAU in 2017.[1]
See also
- List of people with craters of the Moon named after them
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guest, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)
- ↑ Bussey, B.; Spudis, P. (2004). The Clementine Atlas of the Moon. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-521-81528-4.
External links
- AS15-P-9625, high-resolution image of Guest from Apollo 15 panoramic camera
- Guest at The Moon Wiki
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