Douglass (lunar crater)

This article is about the crater on the Moon. For the Martian crater, see Douglass (Martian crater).

Douglass is a lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies to the southwest of the crater Frost and south-southwest of the large walled plain Landau.

Douglass

Normalized Lunar Orbiter 5 image
Coordinates	35.50°N 122.72°W / 35.50; -122.72
Diameter	50.95 km (31.66 mi)
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	123° at sunrise
Eponym	Andrew E. Douglass

Satellite craters of Douglass

The western rim has been shaped by several interior impacts, most notably the remnant of a crater that cuts an outward notch in the northwestern rim. The southeastern rim of this interior crater is now little more than a low rise across the floor of Douglass. Another impact along the southern side has produced a smaller outward bulge and a portion of the rim forms a ridge protruding into the interior floor. Smaller craters lie along the northeastern rim. The remainder of the rim is worn and rounded, and the interior floor is otherwise level and featureless.

Prior to formal naming by the IAU in 1970,^[1] Douglass was called Crater 162.^[2]

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 Douglass.

Douglass	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
C	36.7° N	121.0° W	28 km
X	38.4° N	123.8° W	23 km