Turner (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	1.4° S, 13.2° W
Diameter	12 km
Depth	2.6 km
Colongitude	13° at sunrise
Eponym	Herbert H. Turner

Turner is a small lunar impact crater that lies in the of the Mare Insularum, near the equator of the Moon. It is located to the southeast of Gambart crater. Turner is a circular, cone-shaped crater with inner walls that slope down to the mid-point. A similar-sized ghost-crater is attached to the western rim, its interior floor submerged by lava and the surviving rim broken in the southwest.

[edit] Satellite 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 Turner crater.

Turner	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	1.1° S	14.7° W	6 km
B	0.9° S	10.6° W	5 km
C	2.4° S	12.3° W	5 km
F	1.6° S	14.1° W	7 km
H	2.8° S	13.0° W	4 km
K	3.8° S	13.4° W	4 km
L	3.4° S	12.5° W	5 km
M	4.2° S	11.8° W	4 km
N	2.9° S	12.0° W	4 km
Q	1.0° S	12.4° W	3 km