Brontë Crater

More than a year ago we posted some information about a crater on the moon named after Charlotte Brontë. In those days we were unaware that as a matter of fact, some years before Paul Daniggelis (*) had published on the Brontë Society Gazette an article about it (No. 22, April 2000, "Those Heavenly Brontë's"). Some days ago Mr. Daniggelis sent us more of this fascinating information:

"Fire rises out of the lunar mountains: when she is cold, I'll carry her up to a peak, and lay her down on the edge of a crater."

Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Chapter 24

Apollo 17 Lunar Landing Site
The Valley of Taurus-Littrow

Brontë

20.2N

30.7E

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Astronaut-named feature near Apollo 17 site.

Somewhere on these photos is Brontë Crater. And, I'm not sure that NASA can pinpoint it for me. It is a small crater - some 200 meters in diameter. Probably not enough information from the Apollo 17 lunar probe to locate it photographically.

Apollo 17
December 11, 1972
Eugene A. Cernan - Commander
Ronald B. Evans - Command Module Pilot
Harrison H. Schmitt - Lunar Module Pilot

Apollo 17 Lunar Landing Site - labeled "F"
Detail


(*) Editor of the Brontë Newsletter of the Region 3 of the US Brontë Society. You can read the last issue, September 2006, here.

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