Kapteyn (crater)
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Kapteyn is a lunar impact crater that is near the eastern limb of the Moon, to the west of the crater La Pérouse. West of Kapteyn is the slightly smaller Barkla, and farther to the west-northwest is t
Oblique view from Apollo 8, facing south
Full Moon 2010
Impact crater
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An impact crater is a depression in the surface of a solid astronomical body formed by the hypervelocity impact of a smaller object. In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or int
500-kilometre-wide (310 mi) crater Engelier on Saturn's moon Iapetus
Recently formed (between July 2010 and May 2012) impact crater on Mars showing a pristine ray system of ejecta
50,000-year-old Meteor Crater east of Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S. on Earth
Eugene Shoemaker, pioneer impact crater researcher, here at a crystallographic microscope used to examine meteorites