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Kunowsky (lunar crater)

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Diameter
  
18 km

Colongitude
  
33° at sunrise

Depth
  
0.9 km

Eponym
  
Georg Kunowsky

Kunowsky (lunar crater)

Kunowsky is a small lunar crater on the Mare Insularum, in the western half of the Moon's near side. It lies about one third the distance from Encke to the west-northwest and Lansberg to the east-southeast.

This formation is surrounded by lunar mare, and the interior has been flooded by basaltic lava, leaving only a roughly circular rim projecting above the surface. The rim is slender and sharp-edged, with no significant erosion. Apart from a tiny craterlet at the midpoint of the interior floor, this crater has no other significant features. It does lie in a region of the mare where rays from the craters Kepler to the northwest and Copernicus farther to the northeast.

Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Kunowsky.

References

Kunowsky (lunar crater) Wikipedia


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