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Albategnius

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lunar crater

Key facts

Diameter
130.84 km
Depth
3.2 km
Colongitude
356° at sunrise
Eponym
Al-Batani

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Instance of
impact crater
Named after
Al-Battani
Diameter
131
Image
Albategnius crater 4101 h2 h3.jpg
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Commons category
Albategnius (crater)
located on astronomical body
Moon
vertical depth
3200
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Encyclopedic overview

Albategnius is an ancient lunar impact crater located in the central lunar highlands. It is south of the crater Hipparchus and to the east of both Ptolemaeus and Alphonsus. The surface in this area is marked by a set of nearly parallel scars that form channels running roughly in a north–south line, bent slightly to the southeast.

Description

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Albategnius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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