Sheepshanks

Summary

Sheepshanks is an impact crater^[1]. Sheepshanks ranks in the top 7% of impact_crater entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Sheepshanks's image is recorded as Sheepshanks lunar crater map.jpg^[3].
• Sheepshanks's instance of is recorded as impact crater^[4].
• Richard Sheepshanks is named after Sheepshanks^[5].
• Anne Sheepshanks is named after Sheepshanks^[6].
• Sheepshanks's location is recorded as LQ05^[7].
• Sheepshanks's Commons category is recorded as Sheepshanks (crater)^[8].
• Sheepshanks's located on astronomical body is recorded as Moon^[9].
• Sheepshanks's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 59.24, 'lon': 17.04}^[10].
• Sheepshanks's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03wmgq^[11].
• Sheepshanks's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+23.7'}^[12].
• Sheepshanks's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID is recorded as 5480^[13].

Body

Designation and Status

Sheepshanks's instance of is recorded as impact crater^[4].

History and Context

Things named after include Richard Sheepshanks^[5], an astronomer^[14], 1794–1855^[15], awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society^[16] and Anne Sheepshanks^[6], a benefactor^[17], 1789–1876^[18], of Kingdom of Great Britain^[19].

Why It Matters

Sheepshanks ranks in the top 7% of impact_crater entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2] Sheepshanks has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[20]