Spörer (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates 4.3° S, 1.8° E
Diameter 27 km
Depth 0.3 km
Colongitude   2° at sunrise
Eponym Friedrich W. G. Spörer

Spörer is a lunar crater that lies just to the north of Herschel crater, and southeast of the lava-flooded Flammarion crater. To the southeast is Gyldén crater, and to the northeast is Réaumur crater.

The floor of this crater has been flooded with basaltic-lava, leaving only a shallow rim above the surface. The narrow rim is roughly circular but irregular and broken in several locations. The rim has a slight outward bulge to the northwest. The interior of the crater is level and featureless.

[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 Spörer crater.

Spörer Latitude Longitude Diameter
A 3.4° S 2.1° W 5 km

[edit] References

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