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Buch (crater)

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The crater rim is slightly elongated in the northeastern direction, and forms an egg-shaped depression in the surface. The rim has been eroded by many lesser impacts so that the edge is rounded and worn down, and the crater forms only a low depression in the ground. Within the crater the floor is
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and others) that the satellite crater Buch B is unusual in that it possesses both a dark halo of material around the rim and appears to have formed some dark rays. Early speculation was that this may be
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Menzel, D. H.; Minnaert, M.; Levin, B.; Dollfus, A.; Bell, B. (1971). "Report on Lunar Nomenclature by the Working Group of Commission 17 of the IAU".
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By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Buch.
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relatively flat and featureless, with no central peak at the midpoint. There is only a small craterlet near the northwest rim.
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in nature, but it was later demonstrated to be a typical
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that is located in the rugged southern highlands of the
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Lunar Orbiter 4
Coordinates
38°48′S 17°42′E / 38.8°S 17.7°E / -38.8; 17.7
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
Leopold von Buch

crater
Moon
Leopold von Buch
Maurolycus
Büsching

Shoemaker
volcanic
impact crater
"Buch (crater)"
Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
Bussey, B.
Spudis, P.
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
978-0-521-81528-4
Who's Who on the Moon: A Biographical Dictionary of Lunar Nomenclature
ISBN
978-0-936389-27-1

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