Stratton (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	5.8° S, 164.6° E
Diameter	70 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	187° at sunrise
Eponym	Frederick J. M. Stratton

Stratton is a lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side. It is located to the north of the large Keeler and Heaviside craters, and less than a crater diameter to the south of Dewar crater.

As with many craters on the Moon, this feature has become worn and eroded due to a multitude of subsequent impacts of various sizes. The most prominent of these is a small, cup-shaped impact along the southwestern outer rim. The remainder of the rim has been worn down, forming an uneven shoulder about the interior depression. The interior floor has a small cepral ridge near the mid-point, but is otherwise unremarkable.

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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 Stratton crater.