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Van Rhijn (crater)

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The outer rim of this crater has been deeply worn and eroded by impacts, with smaller craters intruding into the northeast, northwest, and southeastern parts of the rim. The remaining features of the rim have been softened and rounded, leaving the crater little more than a depression in the surface.
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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 van Rhijn.
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The interior floor is relatively flat and featureless, with no significant craters.
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Index


LRO
Coordinates
52°36′N 146°24′E / 52.6°N 146.4°E / 52.6; 146.4
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
Pieter J. van Rhijn

Lunar Orbiter 5
lunar
impact crater
far side
Moon
hemisphere
Störmer
De Moraes
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
ISBN
978-0-936389-27-1

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