St. John

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St. John

Lat: 10.2°N, Long: 150.2°E, Diam: 68 km, Depth: km, Rükl: (farside)

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left: LROC . St John at center, buried under the ejecta blanket of Mendeleev . right: Lunar Orbiter I

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The LROC's BIG SHADOWS version of the region of St.John (on the Act-React Quick Map) shows us a very difficult to locate "crater". See: http://bit.ly/2EAfRyy (was it really worth to call this shallow ruin St.John?).

Maps

(LAC zone 67A4) USGS Digital Atlas PDF

Description


Description: Wikipedia

St. John

Additional Information

It's very difficult to detect something of this shallow depression (not a crater) on LAC 66 (page 133) and LAC 67 (page 135) in the revised edition of the Clementine Atlas of the Moon (Cambridge 2012).- DannyCaes Feb 9, 2014


Nomenclature

Charles Edward St. John (1857-1935) was an American solar physicist and astronomer.

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