Burnham is a small
crater
Crater may refer to:
Landforms
*Impact crater, a depression caused by two celestial bodies impacting each other, such as a meteorite hitting a planet
*Explosion crater, a hole formed in the ground produced by an explosion near or below the surfac ...
located to the southeast of the crater
Albategnius, in a relatively smooth area of the
lunar
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surface. It was named after American astronomer
Sherburne W. Burnham.
To the southwest is
Vogel.
The irregular tooth-like shape of the rim of Burnham protrudes to the southwest, giving the wall a distorted, asymmetric appearance. There are breaks in the rim to the northwest and southwest, the later forming a valley running about 15 km. The interior floor is rough and irregular, and lacks anything resembling a central peak. The abundance of small hills covering the crater floor from rim to rim makes it unusual.
Views
File:Burnham crater LRO WAC.jpg, LRO WAC mosaic
File:Burnham crater AS16-P-4630.jpg, Oblique view from Apollo 16
Apollo 16 (April 1627, 1972) was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon. It was the second of Apollo's " J missions", with an extended sta ...
, facing south
File:Burnham crater AS16-119-19030.jpg, Oblique color view, facing south, also from Apollo 16
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 Burnham.
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External links
Burnham at The Moon Wiki*
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Impact craters on the Moon