Ryder (crater)

lunar crater data
latitude=44.5
N_or_S=S
longitude=143.2
E_or_W=E
diameter=17 km
depth="Unknown"
colong=217
eponym=Graham Ryder

Ryder is a crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located in a patch of higher albedo surface material to the east of the larger Roche-Pauli crater pair. The name for this crater was officially approved at the IAU general assembly in 2006.

This circular-rimmed crater lies along the eastern rim of a larger formation that is most likely the remains of an old, worn impact. Less than a crater diameter to the west of Ryder is the 24-km-diameter satellite crater 'Pauli E'.

References

* cite web
date = 2006-09-08
url = http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/ryder/ | title = Crater Posthumously Named After LPI Scientist Graham Ryder
publisher = Lunar and Planetary Institute
accessdate = 2006-10-05
* cite web
last = Wood | first = Chuck | date = 2005-02-28
url = http://www.lpod.org/archive/LPOD-2005-02-16.htm
title = A Newly named Crater
publisher = Lunar Photo of the Day | accessdate = 2006-10-05