Fleming W (Moon)

Satellite Feature of Fleming

Named after Alexander Fleming - British doctor, Nobel laureate (1881-1955) and Williamina Paton Fleming - Scottish-born American astronomer (1857-1911).

Fleming is a large lunar crater that is located , and cannot be seen from the Earth. It lies about a crater diameter to the east-northeast of Hertz, and to the northwest of Lobachevskiy. The low rim of this formation is heavily eroded and overlaid by multiple smaller craters. The most notable of these is Fleming N along the southern rim, while another, only slightly smaller crater cuts across the lower eastern rim. (wikipedia entry)