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Lunar 100

The Lunar 100 List was created by Charles A. Wood and published in Sky & Telescope April 2004.

The list provides Moon gazers with an objective of touring the most interesting features on the Moon and learning something on the journey. A similar  challenge to those chasing the complete Messier or Caldwell lists.

Just the thing to keep me interested on those bright moon-lit nights. The features become more difficult to view as the numbers increase.

 

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Feature name Significance

Diameter (km)

1 Moon Large satellite 3,476
2 Earthshine Twice reflected Sunlight
3 Mare/highland dichotomy Two materials with distinct compositions
4 Apennines Imbrium basin rim 400
5 Copernicus Archetypal large complex crater 93
6 Tycho Large rayed crater with impact melts 102
7 Altai Scarp Nectaris basin rim 425
8 Theophilus, Cyrillus, Catharina Crater sequence illustrating stages of degradation 110
9 Clavius Lacks basin featrues in spite of its size 245
10 Mare Crisium Mare contained in large circular basin 540
11 Aristarchus Very bright crater with dark bands on its walls 40
12 Proclus Oblique-impact rays 28
13 Gassendi Floor-fractured Crater 101
14 Sinus Iridium Very large crater with missing rim 260
15 Straight Wall Best example of a lunar fault 130
16 Petavius Crater with domed and fractured floor 188
17 Schröter's Valley Giant sinuous rille 168
18 Mare Serenitatis dark edges Distinct mare areas with different compositions
19 Alpine Valley Lunar graben 165
20 Posidonius Floor-fractured crater 95
21 Fracastorius Crater with subsided and fractured floor 112
22 Aristarchus Plateau Mysterious uplifted region mantled with pyroclastics 150
23 Pico Isolated Imbrium basin-ring fragment 25
24 Hyginus Rille Rille containing rimless collapse pits 220
25 Messier and Messier A Oblique ricochet-impact pair 11
26 Mare Frigoris Arcuate mare of uncertain origin 1,600
27 Archimedes Large crater lacking central peak 83
28 Hipparchus Subject of first drawing of a single crater 150
29 Aridaeus Rille Long, linear graben 250
30 Schiller Possible oblique impact 180
31 Taruntius Young floor-fractured crater 56
32 Arago Alpha and Beta Volcanic domes 26
33 Serpentine Bridge Basin inner-ring segment 155
34 Lacus Mortis Strange crater with rille and ridge 152
35 Triesnecker Rilles Rille Family 215
36 Grimaldi basin A small two-ring basin 410
37 Bailly Barely discernible basin 303
38 Sabine and Ritter Possible twin impacts 30
39 Schickard Crater floor with Orientale basin ejecta stripe 206
40 Janssen Rille Rare examle of a highland rille 199
41 Bessel ray Ray of uncertain origin near Bessel
42 Marius Hills Complex of volcanic domes and hills 125
43 Wargentin A crater filled to the rim with lava or ejecta 84
44 Mersenius Domed floor cut by secondary craters 84
45 Maurolycus Region of saturation cratering 114
46 Regiomontanus central peak Possible volcanic peak 108
47 Alphonsus dark spots Dark-halo eruptions on crater floor 119
48 Cauchy region fault, rilles and domes 130
49 Gruithuisen Delta and Gamma Volcanic domes formed with viscous lavas 20
50 Cayley Plains  Light, smooth plains of uncertain origin 14
51 Davy crater chain Result of comet-fragment impacts 34
52 Crüger Possible volcanic caldera 45
53 Lamont Possible buried basin 106
54 Hippalus Rilles Rilles concentric to Humorum basin 240
55 Baco Unusually crater floor and surrounding 69
56 Mare Australe A partially flooded ancient basin 132
57 Reiner Gamma Conspicuous swirl and magnetic anomaly 70
58

Rheita Valley

Basin secondary-crater chain 445
59 Schiller-Zucchius basin Badly degraded overlooked basin 335
60 Kies Pi Volcanic dome 45
61 Mösting A Simple crater close to center of lunar near side 13
62 Rümker Hills Large volcanic dome 70
63 Imbrium sculpture Basin ejecta near and overlying Bscovich and Julius Caesar
64 Descartes Apollo 16 landing site; putative region of highland volcanism
65 Hortensius domes Dome field north of Hortensius 10
66 Hadley Rille Lava channel near Apollo 15 landing site
67 Fra Mauro formation Apollo 14 landing site on Imbrium ejecta
68 Flamsteed P Proposed young volcanic crater, Surveyor 1 landing site
69 Copernicus secondary craters Rays and craterlets 4
70 Humbodtianum basin Multi-ring impact basin 650
71 Sulpicius Gallus dark mantle Ash eruptions northwest of crater 12
72 Atlas dark-halo craters Explosive volcanic pits on the floor of Atlas 87
73 Smythii basin Difficult-to-observe basin scarp and mare 740
74 Copernicus H Dark-halo impact crater 5
75 Ptolemaeus B Saucerlike depression on the floor of Ptolemaeus 164
76 W. Bond Large crater degraded by Imbrium ejecta 158
77 Sirsalis Rille Procellarum basin radial rilles 425
78 Lambert R A buried "ghost" crater 54
79 Sinus Aestuum Eastern dark-mantle volcanic deposit 90
80 Orientale basin Youngest large impact basin 930
81 Hesiodus A Concentric crater 15
82 Linné Small crater once thought to have disappeared 2.4
83 Plato craterlets Crater pits at limits fo detection 109
84 Pitatus Crater with concentric rilles 97
85 Langrenus rays Aged ray system 132
86 Prinz Rilles Rille system near the crter Prinz 46
87 Humboldt Crater with central peaks and dark spots 189
88 Peary Difficult-to-observe polar crater 104
89 Valentine Dome Volcanic Dome 30
90 Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins Small craters near the Apollo 11 landing site 3
91 De Gasparis Rilles Area with many rilles 30
92 Gylden Valley Part of the Imbrium radial sculpture 47
93 Dionysius rays Unusual and rare dark rays 18
94 Drygalski Large south-pole region crater 149
95 Procellarum basin The Moon´s biggest basin? 3,200
96 Leibnitz Mountains Rim of South Pole-Aitken basin
97 Inghirami Valley Orientale basin ejecta 140
98 Imbrium lava flows Mare lava-flow boundaries

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Ina caldera D-shaped young volcanic caldera 3

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Mare Marginis swirls Possible magnetic field-deposits

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