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Sosigenes (crater)

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designated the Rimae Sosigenes. These follow a course to the north, and have a length of about 150 kilometers. The small, bowl-shaped crater Sosignes A lies across one of these rilles.
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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 Sosigenes.
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Sosigenes crater and its satellite craters taken from Earth in 2012 at the University of Hertfordshire's
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The crater (to the top right) area in a Selenochromatic format Image (Si)
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with the telescopes Meade LX200 14" and Lumenera Skynyx 2-1
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Rimae Sosigenes, the IMP above, and Sosigenes A crater
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LRO
Coordinates
8°42′N 17°36′E / 8.7°N 17.6°E / 8.7; 17.6
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
Sosigenes of Alexandria
lunar
impact crater
Mare Tranquillitatis
Sosigenes of Alexandria
Julius Caesar
albedo
mare
rilles

Bayfordbury Observatory


Irregular mare patch

"Sosigenes (crater)"
Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
Bussey, B.
Spudis, P.
Cambridge University Press

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