Kinau (crater)

lunar crater data
latitude=60.8
N_or_S=S
longitude=15.1
E_or_W=E
diameter=42 km
depth=2.0 km
colong=346
eponym="Adolph Gottfried Kinauref|Kinau_botanist

Kinau is a small, eroded lunar crater that is located in the low southern latitudes of the Moon. It lies to the southeast of the Jacobi crater, and about equally far to the north-northwest of Pentland crater. It is 42 kilometers in diameter and two kilometers deep. It may be from the Pre-Nectarian period, 4.55 to 3.85 billion years ago."Autostar Suite Astronomer Edition". CD-ROM. Meade, April 2006.]

The northwestern rim and inner wall of this crater has been heavily damaged by impacts, and is overlaid by a pair of small, cup-shaped craters. The remainder of the rim is worn and somewhat distorted into a hexagonal shape, with several small craterlets along the rim edge. The inner walls are relatively low, and the interior floor is almost featureless except for a few tiny craterlets. There is a low rise near the mid-point that is attached to the small crater to the northwest. [cite book
first=Antonín | last=Rükl | authorlink=Antonín Rükl
year=1990 | title=Atlas of the Moon
publisher=Kalmbach Books
id=ISBN 0-913135-17-8 ]

The crater is named after 19th century German botanist and astronomer Adolph Gottfried Kinau.

atellite craters

By convention these features are identified on Lunar maps by placing theletter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Kinau crater. [cite book
author=Bussey, B.; Spudis, P.,
year=2004 | title=The Clementine Atlas of the Moon
publisher=Cambridge University Press | location=New York
id=ISBN 0-521-81528-2 ]

Notes

# "The botanist C.A. Kinau was struck from the official list of the USGS in April 2007 and replaced by the correct eponym Adolph Gottfried Kinau."

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