Chauvenet (crater)


Chauvenet is a lunar impact crater that is located to the northeast of the prominent crater Tsiolkovskiy on the far side of the Moon. Less than one crater diameter to the northwest of Chauvenet is the crater Ten Bruggencate.
The rim of this crater is roughly circular, with the satellite crater Chauvenet C overlying the northeastern side and intruding into the interior. A ridge runs from the western side of this intruding feature to the midpoint of the interior of Chauvenet. The remainder of the floor is marked only by a number of tiny craterlets. There is a shelf of slumped material forming a along the southeast inner wall. The remainder of the inner wall is somewhat irregular in form.

Satellite craters

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Chauvenet.
ChauvenetLatitudeLongitudeDiameter
C10.4° S138.0° E48 km
D10.6° S139.7° E14 km
E11.4° S140.7° E27 km
G12.7° S141.0° E26 km
J13.9° S139.3° E77 km
L13.3° S137.5° E10 km
P14.5° S135.8° E12 km
Q13.3° S135.4° E42 km
S12.3° S134.4° E38 km
U11.0° S135.2° E11 km