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Ashbrook is a large lunar impact crater that is located in the vicinity of the south pole on the far side of the Moon, and so cannot be viewed directly from the Earth. The eastern face of the crater has been overlain by the similar-sized Drygalski, and more than half the interior floor of Ashbrook is covered by the outer ramparts and ejecta of Drygalski. To the northwest is the walled plain Zeeman.
The surviving outer rim of Ashbrook is worn and eroded by subsequent impacts, although much of the original formation is still visible. If the crater once possessed a central peak, it is now buried by the ejecta from Drygalski. Only a section of the interior floor near the southwest rim is flat, being marked only by tiny craterlets.
This crater was previously designated Drygalski Q before being assigned a name by the IAU.
Ashbrook is a surname, and may refer to:
- Dana Ashbrook (born 1967), American actor
- Daphne Ashbrook (born 1963), American actress
- Jean Spencer Ashbrook (born 1934), American Congresswoman (spouse of John M. Ashbrook)
- John M. Ashbrook (1928–1982), American Congressman (spouse of Jean Spencer Ashbrook)
- Joseph Ashbrook (1918–1980), American astronomer
- Larry Gene Ashbrook (1952–1999), American mass murderer
- Stanley Bryan Ashbrook (1882–1958), American philatelist
- Stephen Ashbrook (born 1969), American singer-songwriter
- Tom Ashbrook (born 1956), American journalist
- Temple Ashbrook (1896–1976), American sailor, Olympian
- William A. Ashbrook (1867–1940), American businessman and Congressman
- William Ashbrook (1922–2009), American musicologist, writer, journalist, and academic
- William Ashbrook Kellerman (1850–1908), American botanist, mycologist, and photographer