Fleming (crater)

Fleming

Oblique Apollo 16 mapping camera image
Coordinates	15°00′N 109°36′E / 15.0°N 109.6°E / 15.0; 109.6Coordinates: 15°00′N 109°36′E / 15.0°N 109.6°E / 15.0; 109.6
Diameter	106 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	252° at sunrise
Eponym	Alexander Fleming Williamina Fleming

Fleming is a large lunar impact crater that is located on the Moon's far side, and cannot be seen from the Earth. It lies about a crater diameter to the east-northeast of Hertz, and to the northwest of Lobachevskiy. Also more half a crater diameter northeast is Chang Heng.

The low rim of this formation is heavily eroded and overlaid by multiple smaller craters. The most notable of these is Fleming N along the southern rim, while another, only slightly smaller crater cuts across the lower eastern rim. The interior floor is also marked by a number of small impacts and a few ghost-crater rims.

The crater are named after Alexander and Williamina Fleming. Prior to naming in 1970 by the IAU, this crater was known as Crater 203.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Fleming.