What is "smithson"

Smithson is a small lunar impact crater located in the northeast part of Mare Fecunditatis. It is a circular, cup-shaped feature with a slightly higher albedo than the surrounding, dark lunar mare. It was previously identified as Taruntius N before being renamed by the IAU. Taruntius itself lies to the west-northwest, in the northwestern part of the same mare.

Smithson is a common English surname that may refer to:

• Alison and Peter Smithson, British architects

Bryan Smithson, American basketball player

• Forrest Smithson, American athlete
• Gerald Smithson, English cricketer
• Harriet Smithson, Henrietta Constance Smithson, actor and wife of Hector Berlioz
• Henry Smithson, the musician Riton
• Hugh Smithson, (1714–86) later Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
• James Smithson, British scientist, eponym of the Smithsonian Institution
  • Jerred Smithson, NHL player
• Jim L. Smithson, former Arkansas state representative
• John Smithson, Discovery Channel producer
• Mike Smithson (disambiguation), various people
• Robert Smithson, American artist
• Rodney Smithson, former footballer who played for Oxford United
• Charles Smithson, a major character in The French Lieutenant's Woman