Birt (crater)
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Birt 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...

 located in the eastern half of the Mare Nubium
Mare Nubium
Mare Nubium is a lunar mare in the Nubium basin on the Moon's near side. The mare is located just to the southeast of Oceanus Procellarum. The actual basin is believed to be of Pre-Nectarian system, with the surrounding basin material being of the Lower Imbrian epoch. The mare material is of the...

 and west of the Rupes Recta
Rupes Recta
Rupes Recta is a linear fault, or rille, on the Moon, in the southeastern part of the Mare Nubium at . The name is Latin for "Straight Fault", although it is more commonly called the Straight Wall...

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Birt is a bowl-shaped formation with a raised rim, slightly slightly intersected along the southeast edge by the much smaller crater Birt A. To the west of Birt, a 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...

named Rima Birt runs north-northwest in an arc from Birt F to Birt E.

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 Birt.
Birt Latitude Longitude Diameter
A 22.5° S 8.2° W 7 km
B 22.2° S 10.2° W 5 km
C 23.7° S 8.3° W 2 km
D 21.0° S 9.8° W 3 km
E 20.7° S 9.6° W 5 km
F 22.3° S 9.1° W 3 km
G 23.1° S 8.2° W 2 km
H 23.0° S 9.1° W 2 km
J 23.0° S 9.4° W 2 km
K 22.4° S 9.7° W 2 km
L 21.6° S 9.3° W 3 km
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