Tsu Chung-Chi (crater)

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Zu Chong-Zhi is also the name of asteroid 1964 VO1; see also 1888 Zu Chong-Zhi.

Crater characteristics
Coordinates	17.3° S, 145.1° E
Diameter	28 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	215° at sunrise
Eponym	Zu Chongzhi

Tsu Chung-Chi is a relatively small lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side. It is named for Chinese mathematician and astronomer Zu Chongzhi.

The crater lies to the west-southwest of Leonov crater, and to the northeast of the large Mendeleev walled plain. To the north of Tsu Chung-Chi is the Mare Moscoviense, one of the few lunar mares on the far side.

This is a bowl-shaped crater formation that is slightly elongated to the northwest. It has undergone some erosion, with a small, cup-shaped crater intruding slightly into the southern rim and several tiny craterlets within the interior. The inner walls are simple slopes down to the interior floor. This crater is otherwise undistinguished.

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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 Tsu Chung-Chi crater.