Mösting (crater)

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.

Mösting

Lunar Orbiter 4 image
Coordinates	0°42′S 5°54′W / 0.7°S 5.9°W / -0.7; -5.9
Diameter	26 km
Depth	2.8 km
Colongitude	6° at sunrise
Eponym	Johan S. von Mösting

Closeup of Mösting from Lunar Orbiter 3

Oblique view from Apollo 16, facing north.

The rayed crater Mösting C, from Lunar Orbiter 3

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.

Satellite craters

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

Mösting	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	3.2° S	5.2° W	13 km
B	2.7° S	7.4° W	7 km
C	1.8° S	8.0° W	4 km
D	0.3° S	5.1° W	7 km
E	0.3° N	4.6° W	44 km
K	0.7° S	7.4° W	3 km
L	0.6° S	3.4° W	3 km
M	1.3° S	4.3° W	31 km
U	3.2° S	6.6° W	18 km

References

1. "Mösting (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.

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