Brashear (lunar crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	73.8° S, 170.7° W
Diameter	40 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	174° at sunrise
Eponym	John A. Brashear

Brashear is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon, in the southern hemisphere in the vicinity of the south pole. It lies just to the south of the Antoniadi walled-plain, within the larger crater's outer rampart of ejecta. To the northeast besides Antoniadi is Numerov crater, and southeast lies the younger De Forest crater

This formation is little more than a shallow depression in the lunar surface; its features eroded and blanketed by the ejecta from the relatively fresh Antoniada crater just to the north. Even the small craterlets on the floor of Brashear.

The satellite crater 'Brashear P' lies to the south-southwest. This formation is a heavily-worn crater with features that have been almost completely worn away by subsequent impacts. Connected to the southern rim of this crater is a series of valleys and impact craters leading a couple of hundred kilometers to the east.

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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 Brashear crater.

Brashear	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
P	76.8° S	175.7° W	71 km

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