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Coordinates: 22°24′S 8°30′W / 22.4°S 8.5°W / -22.4; -8.5
  
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Birt
Coordinates22°24′S 8°30′W / 22.4°S 8.5°W / -22.4; -8.5
Diameter17 km
Depth3.5 km
Colongitude9° at sunrise
EponymWilliam R. Birt
The crater area in a Selenochromatic format Image (Si)
The crater Birt (lower left centre) and other features on the Moon, also Rima Birt - a slightly curved ~50 km long channel that starts and ends in a pit. Photo: Georgi Georgiev, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. Since this is a telescopic view, this image is inverted.

Birt is a lunar impact crater located in the eastern half of the Mare Nubium and west of the Rupes Recta. It was named after British selenographer William R. Birt.[1]

Birt is a bowl-shaped formation with a raised rim, slightly intersected along the southeast edge by the much smaller crater Birt A. To the west of Birt, a rille named Rima Birt runs north-northwest in an arc from Birt F to Birt E.

Oblique view of Rupes Recta (left), Birt (center), and Rima Birt (right), from Apollo 16

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 Birt.

Birt Latitude Longitude Diameter
A 22.5° S 8.2° W 7 km
B 22.2° S 10.2° W 5 km
C 23.7° S 8.3° W 2 km
D 21.0° S 9.8° W 3 km
E 20.7° S 9.6° W 5 km
F 22.3° S 9.1° W 3 km
G 23.1° S 8.2° W 2 km
H 23.0° S 9.1° W 2 km
J 23.0° S 9.4° W 2 km
K 22.4° S 9.7° W 2 km
L 21.6° S 9.3° W 3 km

References

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  1. ^ "Birt (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
  • 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.
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