Engel'gardt (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	5.7° N, 159.0° W
Diameter	43 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	160° at sunrise
Eponym	Vasilij P. Engel'gardt

Engel'gardt is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon, located to the north of the huge Korolev walled plain. The satellite crater 'Engel'gardt B' is attached to the north rim of this crater, and is actually a much larger formation with a diameter of 163 km. To the west-northwest is Lebedinskiy crater.

This is a circular crater with a rim that has been only mildly eroded. The material on the inner sides has slid down to form piles of scree along the base. The inner wall is narrowed to the south, where the satellite crater 'Engel'gardt N' lies adjacent to the edge. Less than a crater diameter to the east-southeast is a small crater with a high albedo surrounded by a skirt of light surface. This skirt reaches to the edge of Engel'gardt's rim.

[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 Engel'gardt crater.