Mösting (crater)
Lunar Orbiter 4 image
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| Coordinates | 0°42′S 5°54′W / 0.7°S 5.9°WCoordinates: 0°42′S 5°54′W / 0.7°S 5.9°W |
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| Diameter | 26 km |
| Depth | 2.8 km |
| Colongitude | 6° at sunrise |
| Eponym | Johan S. von Mösting |
Mösting is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the southeastern fringes of the Mare Insularum. The ruined crater Sömmering lies to the northwest. About 55 km southeast is the large crater-bay of Flammarion. Nearly a crater diameter north is the equator.
Mösting has a inner wall and a small central hill at the midpoint of the floor.
To the south-southeast lies the bowl-shaped Mösting A. This small feature formed the fundamental location in the selenographical coordinate system. It was defined as having the following coordinates:
Later the coordinate system became even more precisely defined using the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Mösting.
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