Kunowsky (lunar crater)

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Crater characteristics
Kunowsky crater from Apollo 12. NASA photo.
Coordinates	3.2° N, 32.5° W
Diameter	18 km
Depth	0.9 km
Colongitude	33° at sunrise
Eponym	Georg Kunowsky

Kunowsky is a small lunar crater on the Mare Insularum, in the western half of the Moon's near side. It lies about one third the distance from the Encke crater to the west-northwest and Lansberg crater to the east-southeast.

This formation is surrounded by lunar mare, and the interior has been flooded by basaltic-lava, leaving only a roughly circular rim projecting above the surface. The rim is slender and sharp-edged, with no significant erosion. Apart from a tiny craterlet at the mid-point of the interior floor, this crater has no other significant features. It does lie in a region of the mare where rays from Kepler crater to the northwest and Copernicus crater further to the northeast.

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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 Kunowsky crater.

Kunowsky	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
C	0.2° S	32.4° W	3 km
D	1.5° N	28.8° W	5 km
G	1.7° N	30.7° W	4 km
H	1.1° N	30.0° W	3 km

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