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Shorty (crater)

Lunar crater

Shorty (crater)

Lunar crater

FieldValue
imageShorty crater location AS17-151-23251.jpg
captionLocation of Shorty crater in Taurus-Littrow Valley. South Massif is at lower left, North Massif is at top center, and Sculptured Hills are at upper right. Scale bar is 5 km
coordinates
diameter110 m
depth14 m
eponymAstronaut-named feature
Schematic cross section through Shorty crater with vertical scale exaggerated

Shorty is a feature on the Moon, an impact crater in the Taurus–Littrow valley. Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt visited it in 1972, on the Apollo 17 mission. It is the location of the famous "orange soil", which geologists believe to be small bits of rapidly-cooled molten rock ejected in a lava fountain.

Shorty Crater is about 14 m deep. Based on our investigations at the site and later examination of photographs, the impact that formed it penetrated, in order, regolith on the avalanche deposit, the avalanche deposit, regolith on a basalt flow, a basalt flow overlying and protecting the orange and black glass layers, the orange and black glass layers, regolith on a second basalt flow, and, finally, the upper portion of that second flow. Orange and black glass clods and basalt boulders are spread throughout the ejecta blanket surrounding Shorty.

To the east of Shorty are Victory, Camelot, and the Apollo 17 landing site. To the southeast is Brontë. To the southwest are Lara and Nansen.

The crater was named after the character "Shorty" in Richard Brautigan's 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America, as well as to honor the genre of the short story with particular reference to J. D. Salinger.

File:Shorty crater AS17-P-2750 ASU.jpg|Apollo 17 panoramic camera image File:As17-137-21009.jpg|Exploring Shorty crater during the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon. The orange soil was found to the right of the rover, at the base of the small hill at the crater rim. File:Apollo 17 orange soil.jpg|Orange soil found next to Shorty, which turned out to be titanium-rich pyroclastic glass (sample 74220 in the table below) File:A17 PSR Figure 6-111 Station 4.gif|Planimetric map of Station 4 including the rim of Shorty

Samples

The following samples were collected from Shorty crater (Station 4), as listed in Table 7-I of the Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report. The "Rock Type" is from the table, and the "Lithology" is from the Lunar Sample Compendium of the Lunar and Planetary Institute or NASA's Lunar Sample Catalog.

References

References

  1. [https://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/Feature/5500 Shorty], Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union ([[IAU]]) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN)
  2. [http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120624.html APOD - June 24, 2012]
  3. [https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap010523.html APOD - May 23, 2001]
  4. [https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.site.html The Valley of Taurus-Littrow], Apollo 17 Lunar Surface Journal, Corrected Transcript and Commentary Copyright 1995 by Eric M. Jones
  5. ''Apollo 17 Preliminary Science Report'' (NASA Special Publication 330). Scientific and Technical Information Office, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, D.C. 1973.
  6. [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/74002.pdf 74001-74002]
  7. [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/74115.pdf 74115-74119]
  8. [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/74220.pdf 74220]
  9. [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/74235.pdf 74235]
  10. [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/74245.pdf 74245]
  11. [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/74246.pdf 74246]
  12. [https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/catalogs/apollo17/v3/74247.pdf 74247]
  13. [https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/catalogs/apollo17/v3/74248.pdf 74248]
  14. [https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/catalogs/apollo17/v3/74249.pdf 74249]
  15. [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/74250.pdf 74250 and 74270]
  16. [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/74255.pdf 74255]
  17. [https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/74275.pdf 74275]
  18. [https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/catalogs/apollo17/v3/74285.pdf 742485]
  19. [https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/catalogs/apollo17/v3/74286.pdf 74286]
  20. [https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/catalogs/apollo17/v3/74287.pdf 74287]
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