Hinshelwood
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Hinshelwood
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Lat: 89.36°N, Long: 46.37°W, Diam: 14.2 km, Depth: km, [/R%C3%BCkl%204 Rükl 4] |
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Lunar Orbiter IV Hinshelwood is in shadow near the center of this aerial view. The white arm extending up from Hinshelwood is part of the rim of [/Peary Peary]. The Moon's [/north%20pole north pole] is located directly above Hinshelwood, near the upper margin of this image.
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Description
Hinshelwood is the [/IAU%20nomenclature IAU-named] crater whose center is closest to the Moon's [/north%20pole north pole]. It straddles the rim of [/Peary Peary] at a point very near the pole. Although its interior is constantly in shadow, when a strong positive [/librations libration] combines with the Sun being north of the Moon's equator, the sunlit rim of Hinshelwood can be seen from Earth during the latter half of the [/lunation lunation]. Under such circumstances, especially at and after [/phases Last Quarter], the sunlit far rim of [/Rozhdestvenskiy Rozhdestvenskiy] can usually be seen on the limb beyond it.
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Nomenclature
- Named for Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897-1967), an English chemist and Nobel Prize winner (1956).
- New name approved by the IAU on April 17, 2009.
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