Baco (crater)

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Baco (crater)

Coordinates: 51°00′S 19°06′E / 51.0°S 19.1°E

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Baco
Lunar Orbiter 4 image
Coordinates	51°00′S 19°06′E / 51.0°S 19.1°E / -51.0; 19.1
Diameter	69 km
Depth	3.1 km
Colongitude	341° at sunrise
Eponym	Roger Bacon

Baco is a lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged southern highlands on the near side of the Moon. The rim and inner wall has been eroded and worn by countless minor impacts since the original formation of the crater. As a result, any terraces have been worn smooth and the rim is overlaid by several tiny craterlets. The interior floor is nearly flat, with no characteristic central peak at the midpoint and no small craters of significance.

There are several minor craters located in the surrounding terrain, including the satellite craters Baco A just to the south and Baco B to the northwest. Further to the north is the crater Breislak, and equally distant to the northeast is Ideler. Further to the west is Cuvier, while Asclepi lies to the southeast.

Although this crater was named after the Englishman Roger Bacon, it was chosen by the German astronomer von Mädler. Hence the crater name became modified from Bacon to Baco.

Satellite craters

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By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Baco.

Baco	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	52.8° S	20.2° E	39 km
B	49.5° S	16.6° E	43 km
C	50.8° S	14.8° E	14 km
D	51.6° S	16.4° E	8 km
E	52.9° S	16.2° E	28 km
F	50.4° S	17.7° E	6 km
G	54.4° S	17.2° E	9 km
H	51.9° S	18.9° E	6 km
J	54.7° S	19.3° E	19 km
K	53.9° S	17.6° E	29 km
L	49.5° S	16.7° E	7 km
M	49.2° S	18.0° E	7 km
N	50.8° S	16.3° E	23 km
O	52.1° S	19.9° E	9 km
P	50.8° S	19.6° E	5 km
Q	52.3° S	18.7° E	20 km
R	49.2° S	21.0° E	18 km
S	49.4° S	18.5° E	18 km
T	53.7° S	19.8° E	5 km
U	52.4° S	19.3° E	6 km
W	53.3° S	21.1° E	9 km
Z	53.0° S	15.0° E	7 km

References

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Andersson, L. E.; Whitaker, E. A. (1982). NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature. NASA RP-1097.
Blue, Jennifer (July 25, 2007). "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature". USGS. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
Bussey, B.; Spudis, P. (2004). The Clementine Atlas of the Moon. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81528-4.
Cocks, Elijah E.; Cocks, Josiah C. (1995). Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature. Tudor Publishers. ISBN 978-0-936389-27-1.
McDowell, Jonathan (July 15, 2007). "Lunar Nomenclature". Jonathan's Space Report. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
Menzel, D. H.; Minnaert, M.; Levin, B.; Dollfus, A.; Bell, B. (1971). "Report on Lunar Nomenclature by the Working Group of Commission 17 of the IAU". Space Science Reviews. 12 (2): 136–186. Bibcode:1971SSRv...12..136M. doi:10.1007/BF00171763. S2CID 122125855.
Moore, Patrick (2001). On the Moon. Sterling Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-304-35469-6.
Price, Fred W. (1988). The Moon Observer's Handbook. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-33500-3.
Rükl, Antonín (1990). Atlas of the Moon. Kalmbach Books. ISBN 978-0-913135-17-4.
Webb, Rev. T. W. (1962). Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes (6th revised ed.). Dover. ISBN 978-0-486-20917-3.
Whitaker, Ewen A. (1999). Mapping and Naming the Moon. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-62248-6.
Wlasuk, Peter T. (2000). Observing the Moon. Springer. ISBN 978-1-85233-193-1.

External links

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Media related to Baco (crater) at Wikimedia Commons

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