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Smithson (crater)

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Diameter
  
5 km

Colongitude
  
308° at sunrise

Depth
  
Unknown

Eponym
  
James Smithson

Smithson (crater)

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.

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Smithson (crater) Wikipedia