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Sherlock is a crater on Earth's Moon spanning 0.49 kilometers in diameter in the Taurus-Littrow valley. Located about 1 kilometer east of the Apollo 17 landing site, the crater has Steno crater to its south and Van Serg and Shakespeare to its north.
During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt drove their rover to the north of Sherlock and photographed its rim.
The crater was named by the astronauts after the fictional Sherlock Holmes from the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Alternatively, the feature was named after Gerald Sherlock, a physicist from Melbourne, Florida, who was good friends with astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, who told Sherlock he would name something on the Moon for him.