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Goclenius (crater)

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The rim of this crater is worn, distorted and irregular, having a somewhat egg-like outline. The crater floor has been covered in lava, and a rille cuts across the floor towards the northwest, in the same direction as the other members of the Rimae Goclenius. A similar rille lies across the floor of
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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 Goclenius.
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system that follow a course toward the northwest, running for a length of up to 240 kilometers. This feature is named the Rimae Goclenius.
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Gutenberg, and it is likely that these features were all formed at the same time, after the original craters were created.
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There is a low central rise located to the northwest of the crater's midpoint.
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Apollo 8
Coordinates
10°00′S 45°00′E / 10.0°S 45.0°E / -10.0; 45.0
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
Rudolf Goclenius, Jr.

Apollo 16

Apollo 11
lunar
impact crater
Mare Fecunditatis
lava
crater Gutenberg
Magelhaens
rille
Rudolf Goclenius, Jr.
IAU
Ibn Battuta
Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
"Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature"
USGS
Bussey, B.
Spudis, P.
Cambridge University Press

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