Stebbins (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	64.8° N, 141.8° W
Diameter	131 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	142° at sunrise
Eponym	Joel Stebbins

Stebbins is a large lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located along the north-northeastern rim of the even larger Birkoff crater, with about one-third of Stebbins laid across the interior of Birkhoff. To the north of Stebbins is the smaller Hippocrates crater, and to the west is Sommerfeld crater.

This is a worn and eroded crater with smaller impacts along the rim edge and the interior. The most notable of these is a small crater across the northwestern rim. The interior floor is relatively flat, with a central ridge offset to the northeast of the mid-point. To the southeast of this ridge is a small craterlet, and to the southwest is a small hill and the outer rim of a partly submerged craterlet.

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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 Stebbins crater.