Baldet (lunar crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	53.3° S, 151.1° W
Diameter	55 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	153° at sunrise
Eponym	Fernand Baldet

Baldet is a lunar crater that is located on the southern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. It lies in the basaltic-lava-flooded region between Cori crater to the north, Stoney crater to the southwest, and the worn Minkowski walled-plain to the southeast.

The rim of Baldet is low and worn, but generally retains its original circular shape. There is a slight outward bulge along the northwest rim, and the western interior wall is wider than elsewhere.

The flat, nearly featureless interior has been flooded by lava, and has a lower albedo than the surroundings giving is a darker hue. A smaller crater has broken into the eastern rim, leaving a gap where the two craters intersect that has been covered in lava. A similar-sized ghost-crater lies just inside the northern rim, producing a raised ring in the crater surface. Another such formation lies just outside the southern rim of Baldet.

[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 Baldet crater.

Baldet	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
J	54.6° S	149.5° W	17 km

[edit] References

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