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123: 139: 131: 30: 1117: 186:-resurfaced interior. The inner floor is marked by several tiny craterlets, and the surface is unusually rough for a walled plain. The low angle of illumination allows fine details of this boulder-strewn field to be seen more clearly. 624: 617: 428:
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 Birmingham.
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All that survives of the original formation is an irregular perimeter of low, indented ridges surrounding the
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The crater area in selenochromatic Image (Si). More infos here : https://www.gawh.it/main/selenocromatica
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image of most of Birmingham, including the northern crater rim, at a low sun angle
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The Birmingham formation lies just to the north of the
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Coordinates
65°06′N 10°30′W / 65.1°N 10.5°W / 65.1; -10.5
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
John Birmingham



Lunar Orbiter 4
lunar
impact crater
John Birmingham
British city
Alabama namesake
Moon
Earth
lava
Mare Frigoris
W. Bond
Epigenes
Fontenelle
Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
"Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature"
USGS
Bussey, B.
Spudis, P.

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