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Houzeau (crater)

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The perimeter of this crater forms a slightly irregular circle, with an outward bulge along the northern side and smaller bulges to the west. The satellite craters Houzeau P and Houzeau Q are attached to the southern exterior. Along the eastern edge is a small crater along the rim. A few tiny
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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 Houzeau.
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impact basin, and ejecta from that event has fallen across this crater rim and its interior. To the south of Houzeau lies the crater
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craterlets lie within the somewhat irregular interior.
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Index


LRO
Coordinates
17°06′S 123°30′W / 17.1°S 123.5°W / -17.1; -123.5
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
J.-C. Houzeau

Lunar Orbiter 5
lunar
impact crater
far side
Moon
Mare Orientale
Gerasimovich
Belopol'skiy
Fridman
Ioffe
Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
"Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature"
USGS
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

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