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Schiller

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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

12 hours after sunrise on Schiller

Sunset

12 hours before sunset on Schiller

Sunrise and sunset on Schiller

EventTimeLit
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)