Agrippa is a lunar

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 impact crater

Impact crater

In the broadest sense, the term impact crater can be applied to any depression, natural or manmade, resulting from the high velocity impact of a projectile with a larger body...

 that is located at the southeast edge of the Mare Vaporum

Mare Vaporum

Mare Vaporum is a lunar mare located between the southwest rim of Mare Serenitatis and the southeast rim of Mare Imbrium. The lunar material surrounding the mare is from the Lower Imbrian epoch, and the mare material is from the Eratosthenian epoch. The mare lies in an old basin or crater that is...

. It is located to the north of the crater Godin

Godin (crater)

Godin is a lunar impact crater located just to the south of the crater Agrippa, on a rough upland region to the east of Sinus Medii. The ruined crater Tempel lies to the northeast, on the east side of Agrippa. Due south is the flooded remains of Lade....

, and the irregular Tempel

Tempel (crater)

Tempel is the remnant of a lunar crater whose outer rim has been eroded, indented, and reshaped by subsequent impacts and lava flows. It is attached to the eastern rim of the crater Agrippa, in an area that has been resurfaced by old lava flows...

 lies just to the east. To the north and northeast, the rille

Rille

Rille is typically used to describe any of the long, narrow depressions in the lunar surface that resemble channels. Typically a rille can be up to several kilometers wide and hundreds of kilometers in length...

 designated Rima Ariadaeus follows a course to the east-southeast, reaching the western edge of Mare Tranquillitatis

Mare Tranquillitatis

Mare Tranquillitatis is a lunar mare that sits within the Tranquillitatis basin on the Moon. The mare material within the basin consists of basalt formed in the intermediate to young age group of the Upper Imbrian epoch. The surrounding mountains are thought to be of the Lower Imbrian epoch, but...

. It is named after the 1st century Greek

Greece

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 astronomer Agrippa

Agrippa (astronomer)

Agrippa was a Greek astronomer. The only thing that is known about him regards an astronomical observation that he made in 92 AD, which is cited by Ptolemy...

.

The rim of Agrippa has an unusual shape, resembling the form of a shield with a rounded southern rim and a more angular northern half. The interior is somewhat irregular, with a central rise at the mid-point. Agrippa is 46 kilometers in diameter and 3.1 kilometers deep. The crater is from the Eratosthenian

Eratosthenian

The Eratosthenian period in the lunar geologic timescale runs from 3,200 million years ago to 1,100 million years ago. It is named after the crater Eratosthenes, whose formation marks the beginning of this period. The formation of the crater Copernicus marks its end, and the beginning of the...

period, which lasted from 3.2 to 1.1 billion years ago.

Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Agrippa.

Agrippa	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
B	6.2° N	9.4° E	4 km
D	3.8° N	6.7° E	20 km
E	5.2° N	8.5° E	5 km
F	4.4° N	11.4° E	6 km
G	3.9° N	6.2° E	13 km
H	4.8° N	10.7° E	6 km
S	5.3° N	8.9° E	32 km