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This crater is circular, with a bowl-shaped interior and a small floor at the midpoint. The crater has not been significantly worn by subsequent impacts. A merged, double-crater formation is attached to its southern rim, consisting of Glaisher E at the northwest end and Glaisher G to the southeast.
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crater pair. It is surrounded by a ring of satellite craters of various dimensions, the larger companions generally being arranged to the south of Glaisher.
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image. Glaisher F is in upper right, Glaisher H is near top center, Glaisher L is above left center, and part of Glaisher E is below Glaisher at center.
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Menzel, D. H.; Minnaert, M.; Levin, B.; Dollfus, A.; Bell, B. (1971). "Report on Lunar Nomenclature by the Working Group of Commission 17 of the IAU".
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By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Glaisher.
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Glaisher crater and its satellite craters taken from Earth in 2012 at the University of Hertfordshire's
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that is located in the region of terrain that forms the southwest border of
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with the telescopes Meade LX200 14" and Lumenera Skynyx 2-1
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Apollo 15
Coordinates
13°12′N 49°30′E / 13.2°N 49.5°E / 13.2; 49.5
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
James Glaisher
lunar
impact crater
Mare Crisium
lava
Yerkes
Greaves
Lick
James Glaisher
IAU

Bayfordbury Observatory

Lunar Orbiter 4
Glaisher crater
International Astronomical Union
Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
Bussey, B.
Spudis, P.
Cambridge University Press

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