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Seleucus (crater)

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Coordinates:21°00′N66°36′W / 21.0°N 66.6°W /21.0; -66.6

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Lunar impact crater

Feature on the moon

Seleucus
LRO mosaic at low sun angle
Coordinates	21°00′N66°36′W / 21.0°N 66.6°W /21.0; -66.6
Diameter	61 km
Depth	3.0 km
Colongitude	67° at sunrise
Eponym	Seleucus of Seleucia^{[citation needed]}

Crater area in selenochromatic Image (Si) . More infos here : https://www.gawh.it/main/selenocromatica

Seleucus is alunar impact crater located in the western part ofOceanus Procellarum. To the west is thelava-flooded remains of the walled plainEddington. To the southwest is the craterKrafft and to the northwest liesBriggs.

Oblique view facing south fromApollo 15, while at the sunriseterminator

Similar view from Apollo 15 before sunlight struck the west rim.

The rim of Seleucus is well-formed, with aterraced inner rim and a slightrampart. The floor is relatively flat, with a small central peak. A brightray fromGlushko crater, about 500 km to the southwest, grazes the southeastern rim of Seleucus.

The narrowness of the rim of Seleucus and the abrupt contact between its raised rim and the surroundingmare prove that the final mare flooding occurred after the crater was formed, and so the crater is older than the youngest (uppermost) mare basalts in the vicinity.^[1]

Approximately 50 kilometers to the southeast of Seleucus, on the Oceanus Procellarum, is the landing site of theSoviet landing craftLuna 13.

Satellite craters

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By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Seleucus.

Seleucus	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	22.0° N	60.5° W	6 km
E	22.4° N	63.9° W	4 km

References

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^Apollo Over the Moon: A View from Orbit (online version) (NASA SP-362), 1978, caption of Figure 31

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