Copernicus (Crater)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4421. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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One of the Moon's most conspicuous craters, with a diameter of 93 km, centered at 9.7 °N, 20.1°W. It is named after the Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus. It is one of the Moon's younger features, the impact that produced it having taken place an estimated 1 billion years ago. Like other young craters it is surrounded by a system of bright rays formed by ejecta from the impact; the rays from ...

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