Lacaille (lunar crater)

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Lacaille is a large, heavily eroded lunar impact crater located in the Moon’s southern highlands, named in honor of French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille.

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Lacaille (lunar crater) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf lunar crater
lunar impact crater
catalog IAU-approved lunar nomenclature
colongitude 354
condition heavily eroded
diameter 70 km
eponym Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
linked to: Nicolas de Lacaille
hasFeature eroded crater walls
interior floor marked by small craters
irregular rim
low surviving rim segments
relatively level interior floor
worn outer rim
hasSatelliteCrater Lacaille A
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hemisphere southern hemisphere of the Moon
locatedIn lunar highlands
southern lunar highlands
locatedOn Moon
morphologicalType walled plain
namedAfter Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
linked to: Nicolas de Lacaille
neighboringCrater Asclepi (lunar crater)
Blancanus (lunar crater)
Delaunay (lunar crater)
Purbach (lunar crater)
Tycho (lunar crater)
observationTarget amateur astronomers
lunar cartographers
quadrant south-central highlands
surfaceType highland terrain

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Nicolas de Lacaille hasLunarCraterNamedAfter Lacaille (lunar crater)