Chaplygin crater

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Chaplygin crater is an impact crater on the Moon’s far side, notable for its heavily eroded rim and location near the large walled plain Gagarin.

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Label Occurrences
Chaplygin crater canonical 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf lunar impact crater
catalogCode IAU-approved lunar crater name
coordinateSystem selenographic
countryOfEponym Russia
eponym Sergey Chaplygin
floorCondition pitted by small craters
relatively level in places
hasColongitude 214
hasDepth_km unknown
hasDiameter_km 132
hasFeature heavily eroded rim
interior floor marked by smaller craters
irregular rim
overlapping smaller craters on rim
satellite craters
worn outer wall
hasSatelliteCrater Chaplygin A
Chaplygin A
surface form: Chaplygin B

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isOverlainBy smaller impact craters
liesWithin lunar highlands
locatedOn Moon
locatedOnSide far side of the Moon
namedAfter Sergey Chaplygin
namedBy International Astronomical Union
near Gagarin crater on the Moon
surface form: Gagarin (lunar walled plain)
observedBy Apollo missions (far-side imaging)
Lunar Orbiter program
surface form: Lunar Orbiter missions
quadrant lunar far-side southern hemisphere
rimCondition heavily worn

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Gagarin crater on the Moon neighboringCrater Chaplygin crater
subject surface form: Gagarin crater