Brouwer (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	36.2° S, 126.0° W
Diameter	158 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	127° at sunrise
Eponym	Dirk Brouwer Luitzen E. J. Brouwer

Brouwer is a large lunar crater that is located in the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. Intruding into the western rim of Brouwer is the younger and somewhat smaller Langmuir crater. Further to the east-southeast is the larger Blackett walled-plain.

This is an old crater formation with a rim that has been heavily worn due to subsequent impacts. Parts of the rim to the east and north can still be traced in the irregular terrain, but the southern rim is almost completely disintegrated. The interior floor is rough in the southeastern half, and somewhat more level and less rough to the northwest. Lying just to the southeast of the crater mid-point is the satellite crater 'Brouwer H'. If the floor once possessed a central peak, it may have been overlaid by this last-mentioned formation.

[edit] 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 Brouwer crater.