Schwarzschild C

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Schwarzschild C is a smaller lunar impact crater that forms one of the satellite craters surrounding the larger walled plain Schwarzschild on the Moon’s far side.

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Schwarzschild C canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf lunar impact crater
satellite crater
abbreviationConvention uses lettered satellite-crater designation
belongsTo Moon’s far-side highlands region
belongsToNaturalSatellite Moon
celestialBodyType impact crater
classificationSystem IAU lunar nomenclature
coordinateSystem selenographic coordinates
discoveryMethod spacecraft imaging
featureCategory lunar crater
governingNamingAuthority International Astronomical Union
hasEponym Karl Schwarzschild
hasGeologicContext lunar highlands crust
hasIllumination sunlit only at certain lunar phases
hasNoAtmosphere true
hasParentCrater Schwarzschild crater
surface form: Schwarzschild (lunar crater)
hasRegolith lunar regolith
hasRelationTo Schwarzschild A
Schwarzschild B
Schwarzschild D
hasSurfaceEnvironment airless
vacuum
isAirlessBodyFeature true
isCatalogedIn lunar crater catalogs
isIn lunar far-side northern hemisphere
isNamedFeatureOf lunar far side
isObservedBy lunar orbiters
isPartOf lunar impact-basin–crater population
isSmallerSatelliteCraterOf Schwarzschild crater
surface form: Schwarzschild (lunar crater)
locatedOn Moon
locatedOnSideOfMoon far side
mappingMissions Clementine mission
Lunar Orbiter program
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
namedAfter Karl Schwarzschild
observabilityFromEarth not directly visible
orbitalBody Earth
orbits Earth (indirectly, as part of the Moon)
partOf Schwarzschild crater
surface form: Schwarzschild crater system
relativeSize smaller than Schwarzschild (lunar crater)
satelliteOf Schwarzschild crater
surface form: Schwarzschild (lunar crater)
surfaceGravity low
surfaceProcess impact cratering
space weathering
surfaceType lunar surface feature

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

Schwarzschild crater hasSatelliteCrater Schwarzschild C