Tsander (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	6.2° N, 149.3° W
Diameter	181 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	151° at sunrise
Eponym	Friedrich Zander

Tsander is a larger lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon. Attached to the southeastern outer rim is the younger Kibal'chich crater. To the northwest lies Dirichlet crater, and to the northeast lies Artem'ev crater. It is named after Friedrich Zander, an early developer of rocket engines.

This is a heavily worn crater formation with an outer rim that has been rendered into an uneven, somewhat circular range due to impact erosion. There is a significant outward bulge along the rim edge to the south-southwest. A smaller crater lies across the rim to the west-northwest. The interior floor has low ridges and uneven areas most likely as the result of large deposits of ejecta. There is a cluster of small craters near the mid-point of the interior, and the worn remains of a pair of older impacts in the north and west.

[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 Tsander crater.