Von der Pahlen (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	24.8° S, 132.7° W
Diameter	56 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	134° at sunrise
Eponym	Emanuel von der Pahlen

Von der Pahlen is an eroded lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon from the Earth. It is located about a crater diameter to the south-southwest of Strömgren crater. Further to the south is the larger Chebyshev crater, and to the west-southwest lies Das crater.

This crater has been heavily worn by subsequent impacts, leaving the rim and interior battered and cratered. There is a small crater attached to the exterior of the rim to the southeast, and the remains of a similar-sized crater along the southern edge. Small craterlets lie acorss the northwest, west, and southwestern rim edges. The remaining rim edge is rounded from impact erosion. A small craterlet lies almost at the crater mid-point.

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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 von der Pahlen crater.