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Oppenheimer (crater)

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The outer rim of Oppenheimer is very nearly circular, but is broken in several locations by small craters. The most prominent of these is Oppenheimer H, lying against the inner wall and rim. In general the inner wall is unusually narrow along the western rim, but is much wider in the eastern half
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in several patches near the western rim. One of these patches contains the flooded crater Oppenheimer U. Near the northern and southern inner walls is a system of linear
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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 Oppenheimer.
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near where the rim approaches the Apollo basin. The interior floor is relatively level, particularly near the center. This floor has a lower
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to the west-southwest. The latter intrudes into the eastern rim of
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in the surface. The far eastern half of the crater is marked by a
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LRO
Coordinates
35°12′S 166°18′W / 35.2°S 166.3°W / -35.2; -166.3
Diameter
Depth
Colongitude
Eponym
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Lunar Orbiter 5
lunar
impact crater
Far side
Moon
Apollo
Maksutov
Davisson
Leibnitz
albedo
rilles
ray system
IAU
Oppenheimer
Lunar Farside Chart (LFC-1A)
Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
"Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature"
USGS
Bussey, B.

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