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| Coordinates | 33°54′N 93°54′E / 33.9°N 93.9°E |
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| Diameter | 96 km |
| Depth | Unknown |
| Colongitude | 268° at sunrise |
| Eponym | Ernest H. Vestine |
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Vestine is a heavily eroded impact crater on the Moon's far side, just beyond the northeastern limb. It lies to the southwest of the large walled plain Harkhebi, and to the northwest of the Maxwell–Richardson crater pair.
The outer rim of this crater is an irregular ridge about the interior floor. The small satellite crater Vestine A lies across the northern rim. The crater Vestine covers the eastern half of the crater Vestine T, an older and somewhat smaller formation. The interior floor has a rounded central ridge with a small craterlet located just to the east.
Prior to formal naming in 1970 by the IAU,[1] this crater was known as Crater 111.[2]
The crater is named after American geophysicist and meteorologist Ernest Harry Vestine. Vestine's son, Henry, was a guitarist for the American blues rock band Canned Heat. Following Henry Vestine's death, a memorial fund was set up in his name, with one of its goals being to convey some of Henry's ashes to the Vestine crater.
- ^ Vestine, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)
- ^ Lunar Farside Chart (LFC-1A)