Gill (lunar crater)

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Gill is an impact crater in the southern lunar front side, southeast of the crater Pontécoulant and northeast of Helmholtz. The rim is eroded, the interior largely flat.

On June 10, 2009 at 20:25 CEST allowed the Japanese Kaguya spacecraft at a point south-east of Gill at 80.4 ° ​​E, 65.5 ° S hit with about 6,000 km / h on the lunar surface. The impact and the resulting dust raised could be observed with ground-based telescopes.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1964 after the British astronomer David Gill.