Love (crater)
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Love is an impact crater
on the far side of the Moon
. It is located just to the north of the crater Perepelkin
. Prager
nearly touches the northeastern rim. To the northwest is Bečvář
.
This is an eroded crater formation with several smaller craters along the rim. A chain of three small craters lies across the western rim and inner wall, and a crater cuts across the eastern rim. The inner walls have been worn and their features softened by impacts and possibly ejecta from other craters. The northern portion of the interior floor contains a considerable number of small and tiny craterlets that nearly form a continuous carpet in places. The southern floor is less impacted, with only a few tiny craterlets.
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
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. It is located just to the north of the crater Perepelkin
Perepelkin (lunar crater)
Perepelkin is a lunar impact crater that is located just to the south of the similar crater Love. Attached to the exterior of its southern rim is the smaller Shirakatsi...
. Prager
Prager (crater)
Prager is an impact crater on the Moon's far side. It is located just to the northeast of the crater Love. Farther to the south-southeast lies Lane...
nearly touches the northeastern rim. To the northwest is Bečvář
Becvár (crater)
Bečvář is a lunar crater that is located near the equator on the far side of the Moon from the Earth. It lies to the northeast of the crater Necho, within that feature's ray system. To the north-northeast is the crater Gregory....
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This is an eroded crater formation with several smaller craters along the rim. A chain of three small craters lies across the western rim and inner wall, and a crater cuts across the eastern rim. The inner walls have been worn and their features softened by impacts and possibly ejecta from other craters. The northern portion of the interior floor contains a considerable number of small and tiny craterlets that nearly form a continuous carpet in places. The southern floor is less impacted, with only a few tiny craterlets.
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 Love.| Love | Latitude | Longitude | Diameter |
|---|---|---|---|
| H | 6.9° S | 130.4° E | 29 km |
| T | 6.0° S | 126.1° E | 13 km |
| U | 5.9° S | 127.8° E | 12 km |