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Casatus (crater)
Lunar impact crater / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Casatus is a lunar impact crater that is located near the southern limb of the Moon. The north-northeast rim of the crater overlies a portion of the slightly larger crater Klaproth. Along the western rim, Casatus A intrudes somewhat into the interior, producing an inward-bowing rim. To the southeast of Casatus is Newton.
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Coordinates | 72.6°S 30.5°W / -72.6; -30.5 |
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Diameter | 111 km |
Depth | 5.5 km |
Colongitude | 35° at sunrise |
Eponym | Paolo Casati |
The outer rim of Casatus is old and worn, with many tiny impacts along the rim and inner wall. The small satellite crater Casatus J lies across the south-southeastern rim. The height of the rim is lower where it divides this crater from Klaproth, forming a rounded ridge.
The interior floor is a nearly level surface marked by several tiny ghost-crater rims projecting above the surface and a pair of clefts in the southern part of the floor. A small, bowl-shaped impact crater forms a prominent feature in the northern half of the floor. There is no central peak formation at or near the midpoint of the interior.