Lents (crater)
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| Crater characteristics | |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 2.8° S, 102.1° E |
| Diameter | 21 km |
| Depth | Unknown |
| Colongitude | 102° at sunrise |
| Eponym | Heinrich F. E. Lenz |
Lents is a small lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located within the north-northwestern section of the immense skirt of ejecta that surrounds the Mare Orientale impact basin. To the south is the Montes Cordillera mountain ring, and to the north-northeast is the damaged Elvey crater.
This is a bowl-shaped formation with an interior floor that is about half the diameter of the crater. Attached to the northeastern exterior of Lents is the satellite crater 'Lents C', a feature of roughly the same dimension. Slightly more than a crater diameter to the east of 'Lents C' is a smaller impact feature. This crater lies at the center of a broad, wispy ray system that extends for more than 100 km in all directions. The ray material from this impact lies across both 'Lents C' and the Lents crater, reaching as far north as Elvey crater.
On some maps this crater is called Lenz.
[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 Lents crater.
| Lents | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter |
|---|---|---|---|
| C | 3.3° N | 101.6° W | 23 km |
| J | 3.7° S | 97.3° W | 16 km |
| K | 2.3° S | 98.8° W | 21 km |
[edit] References
- See the reference table for the general listing of literature and web sites that were used in the compilation of this page.
