Mösting (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	0.7° S, 5.9° W
Diameter	26 km
Depth	2.8 km
Colongitude	6° at sunrise
Eponym	Johan S. von Mösting

Mösting is a small lunar crater that is located in the southeastern fringes of the Mare Insularum. 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 mid-point of the floor.

To the south-southeast lies the bowl-shaped 'Mösting A' crater. 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"
Longitude:	5° 12' 39.6"

Later the coordinate system became even more precisely defined using the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment.

[edit] Satellite craters

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

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

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