Wan Hoo Van Gu
What Wan Hoo Van Gu is
Wan Hoo Van Gu is a crater — a circular depression, almost always an impact scar — on The Moon, 53.3 km across, centred at 10.0° S, 138.9° W in the Vavilov quadrangle. It is the 942nd largest named feature on The Moon and the 714th largest of its class there.
Where the name comes from
Legendary Chinese inventor. The International Astronomical Union approved the name in 1970, 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).
What it would take to settle Wan Hoo Van Gu
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 10.0° S, 138.9° W.
What this spot has going for it is sunlight — 98% of the sunlight the sunniest latitude on The Moon gets. What works against it is water — outside the ice-bearing latitudes.
Computed from Wan Hoo Van Gu'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.
Wan Hoo Van Gu's satellite craters
The IAU names smaller craters around a major one by letter. Wan Hoo Van Gu has 1, and each shares the parent's namesake rather than carrying one of its own.
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.