Schiller
Location: ·
An elongated crater, 179 by 71 km — likely two ancient impacts merged into one.
Type
Crater
Diameter
179 km
Position
51.7°S 39.8°W
Name approved
1935
The elongation has two competing explanations. It may be a fusion of two or more overlapping craters, which the bend in its outline and the double ridge along the floor would support. Or it may be a single impact at a grazing angle, below roughly five degrees, the same mechanism proposed for Messier - in which case the long axis records the direction the projectile travelled.
Nothing about the rim settles it. An oblique impact of that shallowness is rare enough that either answer is unusual.
Sunrise
Sunset
Sunrise and sunset on Schiller
| Event | Time | Lit |
|---|---|---|
| Computing… | ||
- Sunrise / Sunset: at the feature's centre (IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature).
- Lit: the illuminated fraction of the Moon's disc at that moment.
Named after
Julius Schiller, German astronomer (died c. 1627).
Further info
Official record from the IAU Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Schiller
Wikipedia: Schiller (crater)