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Priestley (lunar crater)

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This is a worn crater with a rim and inner wall that have been softened and have lost the sharp features of a young crater. The satellite crater Priestley X lies across the northern rim and part of the inner wall. There is a small, relatively fresh crater on the inner wall to the south-southwest. An
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old crater-like feature is attached to the southwestern outer rim, and shares part of its rim with Priestley. The inner wall is narrower in the southeast than elsewhere. Within the interior is a level, featureless floor.
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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 Priestley.
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A depression in the surface to the south of Priestley has been flooded with
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Priestley (disambiguation)

LRO
Coordinates
57°18′S 108°24′E / 57.3°S 108.4°E / -57.3; 108.4
Diameter
Colongitude
Eponym
Joseph Priestley

Lunar Orbiter 4
lunar
impact crater
far side
Moon
Earth
latitudes
Kugler
lava
albedo
Whitaker, E. A.
NASA
"Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature"
USGS
Bussey, B.
Spudis, P.
The Clementine Atlas of the Moon
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
978-0-521-81528-4

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