Ukert (crater)

Ukert
Mosaic of Lunar Orbiter 4 images
(white spots are blemishes on original image)
Coordinates7°48′N 1°24′E / 7.8°N 1.4°E / 7.8; 1.4
Diameter23 km
Depth2.9 km
Colongitude359° at sunrise
EponymFriedrich A. Ukert
The crater area in selenochromatic Image (Si) with some landmarks (yellow/normal, red/pyroclastic). More infos here : https://www.gawh.it/main/selenocromatica
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.[1] 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.[2]

  1. ^ "Ukert (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
  2. ^ 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.