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Greaves (crater)

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Diameter
  
14 km

Colongitude
  
307° at sunrise

Depth
  
Unknown

Eponym
  
William M. H. Greaves

Greaves (crater)

Greaves is a small lunar impact crater that lies near the southwest edge of Mare Crisium. It is a circular, bowl-shaped formation with a small interior floor at the center of the sloping inner walls. The crater is intruding into the northern edge of the lava-flooded crater Lick. To the northwest is Yerkes, and to the northeast is Picard.

This formation was previously designated Lick D, a satellite crater of Lick, before it was given a name by the IAU.

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Greaves (crater) Wikipedia