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Fleming (crater)

Lunar impact crater

Summary

Lunar impact crater

Field	Value
image	Fleming crater AS16-M-3001 ASU.jpg
caption	Oblique Apollo 16 mapping camera image
coordinates
diameter	106 km
colong	252
eponym	Alexander Fleming and Williamina Fleming

Oblique [[Apollo 14]] Hasselblad camera image.

Oblique [[Apollo 11]] Hasselblad camera image, facing northeast.

Fleming is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side, and cannot be seen from the Earth. It lies about a crater diameter to the east-northeast of Hertz, and to the northwest of Lobachevskiy.

The low rim of this formation is heavily eroded and overlaid by multiple smaller craters. The most notable of these is Fleming along the southern rim, while another, only slightly smaller crater cuts across the lower eastern rim. The interior floor is also marked by a number of small impacts and a few ghost-crater rims.

The crater was named after Alexander and Williamina Fleming. Prior to naming in 1970 by the IAU, this crater was known as Crater 203.

Fleming is one of the largest craters of Nectarian age.

Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Fleming.

Fleming	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
D	17.0° N	114.0° E	25 km
N	12.7° N	108.8° E	24 km
W	18.0° N	106.2° E	50 km
Y	18.2° N	108.2° E	30 km

References

[https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/1979 Fleming], Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)
[http://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mapcatalog/LunarFarsideCharts/LFC-1%201stEd/LFC-1%202ndEd/LFC-1A/ Lunar Farside Chart (LFC-1A)]
[https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1348 The geologic history of the Moon]. [[USGS]] Professional Paper 1348. By [[Don Wilhelms. Don E. Wilhelms]], John F. McCauley, and Newell J. Trask. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington: 1987. Table 9-4.

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