Eötvös (crater)
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Eötvös is the remains of a lunar
crater
on the far side of the Moon
. It lies to the north-northwest of the walled plain Roche
, and east-southeast of the equally ruined Bolyai
.
Only the northwestern section of the crater's rim survives, the remainder now forming a battered, uneven circular rise. The rim is nearly non-existent along the southeast where it joins an uneven plain reaching the rim of Roche. Small craters lie along the rim to the northeast and one to the southwest. The interior floor is relatively level, but marked by a number of small craterlets as well as palimpsest
s, meaning circular rises in the surface that are now scarcely recognizable as craters.
Moon
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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...
on the far side of the Moon
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
. It lies to the north-northwest of the walled plain Roche
Roche (crater)
Roche is a large crater on the far side of the Moon from the Earth. The prominent crater Pauli lies across the southern rim of Roche, and the outer rampart of Pauli covers a portion of Roche's interior floor. To the north-northwest of Roche is the crater Eötvös, and just to the west-northwest lies...
, and east-southeast of the equally ruined Bolyai
Bolyai (crater)
Bolyai is an old lunar crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. To the southeast of Bolyai is the crater Eötvös, and to the north is Neujmin....
.
Only the northwestern section of the crater's rim survives, the remainder now forming a battered, uneven circular rise. The rim is nearly non-existent along the southeast where it joins an uneven plain reaching the rim of Roche. Small craters lie along the rim to the northeast and one to the southwest. The interior floor is relatively level, but marked by a number of small craterlets as well as palimpsest
Palimpsest
A palimpsest is a manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped off and which can be used again. The word "palimpsest" comes through Latin palimpsēstus from Ancient Greek παλίμψηστος originally compounded from πάλιν and ψάω literally meaning “scraped...
s, meaning circular rises in the surface that are now scarcely recognizable as craters.
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 Eötvös.| Eötvös | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | 33.0° S | 134.8° E | 22 km |
| D | 34.4° S | 136.1° E | 16 km |
| E | 34.5° S | 138.1° E | 23 km |
| F | 35.8° S | 136.2° E | 21 km |
| T | 35.3° S | 130.8° E | 15 km |