Bode is a small 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 near the central region of the Moon

Moon

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, to the northwest of the joined craters Pallas

Pallas (crater)

Pallas is a heavily eroded lunar crater located to the north of the Sinus Medii. To the northwest is the smaller but less worn crater Bode. Pallas shares a low wall with the crater Murchison that is attached to the southeast, and there are two gaps in the shared rim.The outer wall of Pallas is...

 and Murchison

Murchison (crater)

Murchison is a lunar crater on the north edge of the Sinus Medii, named in honour of the geologist Sir Roderick Murchison. It shares a section of rim with the crater Pallas. To the southeast on the mare is the circular crater Chladni, and to the northeast is Ukert. Farther to the east is the...

. It lies on a region of raised surface between 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...

 to the northeast, Sinus Aestuum

Sinus Aestuum

Sinus Aestuum forms a northeastern extension to Mare Insularum. It has selenographic coordinates 10.9° N, 8.8° W, and it lies within a diameter of 290 km....

 to the west, and Sinus Medii

Sinus Medii

Sinus Medii is a small lunar mare that is located at the intersection of the Moon's equator and prime meridian. As seen from the Earth, this feature is located in the central part of the Moon's near side, and it is the point closest to the Earth...

 to the southeast.

This crater is bowl-shaped, with a small interior floor and a ridge along the inner wall to the northeast. It has a minor ray system

Ray system

A ray system comprises radial streaks of fine ejecta thrown out during the formation of an impact crater, looking a bit like many thin spokes coming from the hub of a wheel. The rays can extend for lengths up to several times the diameter of their originating crater, and are often accompanied by...

 that extends for a distance of 130 kilometers. There is a group of 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...

s located to the west of the crater named the Rimae Bode. It's name comes from the tap on Bode Faleti discovered in 2010 in Chicago Illinois.

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 Bode.

Bode	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	9.0° N	1.2° W	12 km
B	8.7° N	3.1° W	10 km
C	12.2° N	4.8° W	7 km
D	7.2° N	3.3° W	4 km
E	12.4° N	3.4° W	7 km
G	6.4° N	3.5° W	4 km
H	12.2° N	6.5° W	4 km
K	9.3° N	2.3° W	6 km
L	5.6° N	3.8° W	5 km
N	10.9° N	3.9° W	6 km