Globe · Lunar Compendium
■ Measured / ComputedRankine
Crater (10.5 km) — William John Macquorn; Scottish physicist, engineer (1820-1872).
- Coordinates
- -3.8687, 71.4939 (positive-east)
- Descriptor
- Crater
- Feature type
- Crater, craters
- Feature type code
- AA
- Diameter km
- 10.479819
- Etymology
- William John Macquorn; Scottish physicist, engineer (1820-1872).
- Iau approval status
- Adopted by IAU
- Iau approval year
- 1976
- Iau reference
- http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/4948
- Clean name
- Rankine
- Ethnicity
- Scotland
- Continent
- Europe
- Quad
- LAC-81
Primary source