Lebedev (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	47.3° S, 107.8° E
Diameter	102 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	254° at sunrise
Eponym	Pyotr N. Lebedev

Lebedev is a lunar crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located at the eastern edge of the irregular feature known as Mare Australe. The crater lies to the southeast of the larger, flooded Lamb crater, and to the east-northeast of Anuchin crater. To the southeast of Lebedev lies the smaller Cassegrain crater.

This is a worn and eroded crater formation with an uneven outer rim, although no significant impacts overlay the rim edge. There are a few small craterlets along the inner wall, with a pair along the southeast and another to the southwest. The most distinctive feature about this crater, however, is the dark, basaltic-lava flooded interior. This surface is pitted with many tiny craterlets and has a low ridge in the southern half, but is otherwide level and nearly featureless.

[edit] Satellite craters

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 Lebedev crater.

Lebedev	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
C	45.0° S	111.0° E	34 km
D	44.6° S	112.5° E	34 km
F	47.5° S	110.8° E	18 km
K	49.7° S	108.9° E	22 km

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