Key facts
- Location
- The Moon
- Diameter
- c. 93 km
- Depth
- c. 3.8 km
- Age
- c. 800 million years
- Eponym
- Nicolaus Copernicus
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- impact crater
- Named after
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Diameter
- 96.07
- Image
- Copernicus (LRO) 2.png
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- Commons category
- Copernicus (lunar crater)
- located on astronomical body
- Moon
- vertical depth
- 3800
- different from
- Copernicus
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Encyclopedic overview
Copernicus Crater is a lunar impact crater located in eastern Oceanus Procellarum. T. W. Webb describes it as "one of the grandest craters" with "a central mountain" and "a noble ring composed not only of terraces, but distinct heights separated by ravines". It was named after the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. It typifies craters that formed during the Copernican period in that it has a prominent ray system.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Copernicus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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