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Yerkes (crater)

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128: 30: 136: 195:. The rim is widest on the western and southern portions, and barely existent to the east, forming a thin curve in the surface. A low ridge runs from the north rim to Yerkes E in the north-northwest. The floor has a similar 374:
Menzel, D. H.; Minnaert, M.; Levin, B.; Dollfus, A.; Bell, B. (1971). "Report on Lunar Nomenclature by the Working Group of Commission 17 of the IAU".
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By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Yerkes.
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Yerkes and its satellite crater taken from Earth in 2012 at the University of Hertfordshire's
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to the nearby mare, so the feature is not sharply distinguished from the surroundings.
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In the past the interior of this crater has been almost completely inundated by
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Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature
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The crater area (on the bottom right) in selenochromatic format
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with the telescopes Meade LX200 14" and Lumenera Skynyx 2-1
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Index


LRO
Coordinates
14°36′N 51°42′E / 14.6°N 51.7°E / 14.6; 51.7
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
Charles T. Yerkes


Apollo 15

Bayfordbury Observatory
lunar
impact crater
Mare Crisium
Charles Yerkes
Picard
Peirce
lava
mare
albedo
"Yerkes (crater)"
Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
Bussey, B.
Spudis, P.
Cambridge University Press
ISBN

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