Respighi is a small
lunarimpact crater that is located to the southeast of the crater
Dubyago, near the eastern limb of the
Moon. To the east is the comparably sized
Liouville.
This is a crudely circular crater with inner walls that slope down to the relatively darker (lower
albedo) interior central floor. The rim has not suffered significant erosion from subsequent impacts, but there is a shallower section to the south. Attached to the southern rim of this crater is Schubert N, a formation that has the appearance of two or more merged craters with a dark,
lava-flooded floor that is elongated to the southeast.
Apollo 11 was the spacecraft that took the image of Respighi.
The crater is named for
Lorenzo Respighi, 1824–89, Italian mathematician and astronomer.[1]
References
^"Respighi (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology Research Program.
Andersson, L. E.;
Whitaker, E. A. (1982). NASA Catalogue of Lunar Nomenclature. NASA RP-1097.
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.
S2CID122125855.