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Huggins

Sir William; British astronomer (1824-1910).

What Huggins is

Huggins is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on The Moon, 65.8 km across, centred at 41.1° S, 1.5° W in the Tycho quadrangle. It is the 733rd largest named feature on The Moon and the 518th largest of its class there.

Where the name comes from

Sir William; British astronomer (1824-1910). The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1935, under the theme it applies to every crater on The Moon. Of the 1615 features of this class catalogued on The Moon, the naming categories run Germany (234), American (229), France (163), Great Britain (160).

Feature class
a circular depression, almost always an impact scar
Diameter
65.8 km
about the width of Yellowstone
Coordinates
41.1° S, 1.5° W
Planetocentric, on The Moon
Name approved
1935
By the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature
Quadrangle
Tycho
Map sheet on The Moon
Naming category
Great Britain
Europe

What it would take to settle Huggins

The Moon scores 29.1 as a world. That number is the same for every square metre of it — but sunlight, water, radiation and the ground under your feet are not. This is the same question asked at 41.1° S, 1.5° W.

Settlement difficulty here
29.1/ 100
Typical for this world
The Moon overall
29.1
Exactly typical
Ranked
1003rd
of 2,023 named places on The Moon

What this spot has going for it is earth link near side — Earth stands 49° above the horizon and never moves. What works against it is water outside the ice-bearing latitudes.

Computed from Huggins's catalogued latitude, longitude and feature class — 84% of the model's weight had a basis here, and one axis was dropped as not applicable to The Moon (radiation geometry). Gravity, pressure, delta-v and distance from the Sun are the same everywhere on The Moon and are already counted in the world's own index, not again here.

What this cannot see: elevation. Slope, local shadowing and the polar “peaks of eternal light” — ridge tops near the poles of a barely tilted world that catch sun almost continuously while a crater floor kilometres away never does — need a terrain model this does not have. Where a real mission targets a pole, that is usually why.

Huggins's satellite craters

The IAU names smaller craters around a major one by letter. Huggins has 1, and each shares the parent's namesake rather than carrying one of its own.

Huggins A 9.6 km

What is next to it

The largest crater features on The Moon

All 1,615 craters on The Moon — mapped together, with the naming theme and the size distribution.