Mösting (crater)
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Mösting is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the southeastern fringes of the Mare Insularum. It was named after Danish benefactor Johan Sigismund von Mösting.[1] The ruined crater Sömmering lies to the northwest. To the southeast is the large crater-bay of Flammarion. Mösting has a terraced inner wall and a small central hill at the midpoint of the floor.
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Coordinates | 0.7°S 5.9°W / -0.7; -5.9 |
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Diameter | 26 km |
Depth | 2.8 km |
Colongitude | 6° at sunrise |
Eponym | Johan S. von Mösting |
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To the south-southeast lies the bowl-shaped Mösting A. This small feature formed the fundamental location in the selenographical coordinate system. It was defined as having the following coordinates:
Latitude: 3° 12' 43.2" South Longitude: 5° 12' 39.6" West
Later the coordinate system became even more precisely defined using the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment.