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Coordinates
7°48′N
1°24′E
 / 
7.8°N 1.4°E
 /
7.8; 1.4
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Crater on the Moon
Feature on the moon
Ukert
Mosaic of
Lunar Orbiter 4
images
(white spots are blemishes on original image)
Coordinates
7°48′N
1°24′E
 / 
7.8°N 1.4°E
 /
7.8; 1.4
Diameter
23 km
Depth
2.9 km
Colongitude
359° at sunrise
Eponym
Friedrich A. Ukert
Ukert crater, from
GRAIL
spacecraft
Ukert crater (right of center) is younger than the linear hills of
Imbrium Sculpture
that it overprints
View from
Apollo 17
Ukert
is a
lunar
impact crater
that lies on a strip of rugged ground between
Mare Vaporum
to the north and
Sinus Medii
in the south. It was named after German historian
Friedrich August Ukert
It is located to the north-northwest of the crater
Triesnecker
and northeast of the crater pair of
Pallas
and
Murchison
The outer rim of this crater is not quite circular, with outward bulges to the north and the east. The interior floor is irregular in places, with a central ridge running from crater midpoint down to the southern wall. There is a tiny craterlet along the northern rim, but otherwise the crater contains no impacts of note.
Ukert is a crater of Lower (Early)
Imbrian
age.
Satellite craters
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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 Ukert.
Ukert
Latitude
Longitude
Diameter
8.7° N
1.3° E
9 km
8.3° N
1.3° E
21 km
9.0° N
0.4° E
5 km
11.1° N
0.6° W
3 km
6.5° N
3.7° E
4 km
7.9° N
2.3° E
26 km
7.6° N
2.0° E
17 km
7.8° N
2.9° E
5 km
8.2° N
0.7° E
18 km
8.7° N
3.2° E
3 km
9.5° N
2.3° E
3 km
9.2° N
1.9° E
3 km
10.1° N
0.2° E
4 km
References
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"Ukert (crater)"
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature
. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
The geologic history of the Moon
USGS
Professional Paper 1348. By
Don E. Wilhelms
, John F. McCauley, and Newell J. Trask. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington: 1987. Table 10.2.
Andersson, L. E.;
Whitaker, E. A.
(1982).
NASA
Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature
. NASA RP-1097.
Bussey, B.
Spudis, P.
(2004).
The Clementine Atlas of the Moon
. New York:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
978-0-521-81528-4
Cocks, Elijah E.; Cocks, Josiah C. (1995).
Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature
. Tudor Publishers.
ISBN
978-0-936389-27-1
McDowell, Jonathan (July 15, 2007).
"Lunar Nomenclature"
Jonathan's Space Report
. Archived from
the original
on 2012-02-08
. Retrieved
2007-10-24
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".
Space Science Reviews
12
(2):
136–
186.
Bibcode
1971SSRv...12..136M
doi
10.1007/BF00171763
S2CID
122125855
Moore, Patrick
(2001).
On the Moon
Sterling Publishing Co
ISBN
978-0-304-35469-6
Price, Fred W. (1988).
The Moon Observer's Handbook
. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-33500-3
Rükl, Antonín
(1990).
Atlas of the Moon
Kalmbach Books
ISBN
978-0-913135-17-4
Webb, Rev. T. W.
(1962).
Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes
(6th revised ed.). Dover.
ISBN
978-0-486-20917-3
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Whitaker, Ewen A.
(1999).
Mapping and Naming the Moon
. Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-62248-6
Wlasuk, Peter T. (2000).
Observing the Moon
. Springer.
ISBN
978-1-85233-193-1
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Ukert (crater)
Ukert at The Moon Wiki
Nemiroff, Robert
; Bonnell, Jerry (December 10, 2016).
"The Lunar X"
. Astronomy Photo of the Day (APOD).
- includes Lunar V
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