Harriot (crater)

lunar crater data
latitude=33.1
N_or_S=N
longitude=114.3
E_or_W=E
diameter=56 km
depth="Unknown"
colong=246
eponym=Thomas Harriot

Harriot is a lunar crater that is located on the far side of the Moon from the Earth. It lies just to the north of the much larger Seyfert crater. To the northeast of Harriot is the Cantor crater. About one and a half crater diameters to the north of Harriot is the eastern end of a crater chain named "Catena Sumner". This feature continues to the west-northwest for a distance of 247 km, passing to the north of Sumner crater, for which it is named.

This is a double-crater formation, with a younger, smaller impact laying long the northeastern inner edge of an older and more eroded outer rim. The inner crater occupies nearly three quarters of the crater diameter. This interior feature has a well-defined rim edge, somewhat slumping inner walls, and a small central peak. The outer rim of Harriot is a worn and eroded feature with edges that have become softened and rounded after a history of impacts nearby.

atellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Harriot crater.

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