Steinheil (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	48.6° S, 46.5° E
Diameter	67 km
Depth	3.0 km
Colongitude	315° at sunrise
Eponym	Karl A. von Steinheil

Steinheil is a lunar impact crater that is located in the rugged highlands in the southeastern part of the Moon. It forms a prominent crater pair with the similar-sized Watt crater, which it partly overlays to the southeast. To the northwest is the large Janssen walled-plain. Due to the location of this crater, it appears foreshortened when viewed from the Earth.

This is a relatively circular crater that has undergone some light erosion from subsequent impacts. The inner wall is wider along the southwestern rim than elsewhere, and there is a slight outward bulge in the western rim. There are a few tiny craterlets along the rim and inner wall, the most notable being a crater at the base of the inner noirtheast rim. The interior floor is level, with no central peak and only a few minor craterlets.

[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 Steinheil crater.

Steinheil	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
E	44.9° S	47.6° E	16 km
F	45.3° S	48.4° E	21 km
G	45.6° S	49.9° E	19 km
H	45.7° S	46.9° E	20 km
K	48.6° S	51.9° E	5 km
X	47.6° S	45.8° E	17 km
Y	47.3° S	45.1° E	16 km
Z	46.4° S	45.4° E	23 km