Capuanus (crater)

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Crater characteristics
Coordinates	34.1° S, 26.7° W
Diameter	60 km
Depth	Unknown
Colongitude	28° at sunrise
Eponym	F. Capuano di Manfredonia

Capuanus is a lunar crater that lies along the southern edge of the Palus Epidemiarum. The outer rim is eroded and indented by lesser crater impacts, with notches in the north, west, and southern parts of the rim. The interior floor has been resurfaced by basaltic-lava, which is connected to the surrounding lunar mare by a narrow, crater-formed gap in the northern rim. The floor is particularly notable for the hosting a number of domes, which are believed to have formed through volcanic activity.

The rim achieves its maximum altitude along the western face, where it merges with ridges along the edge of the mare. To the northeast the rim dips down very close to the surface, and barely forms a curving ridge in the surface. The southeastern rim is overlaid by a pair of craters.

To the north of Capuanus crater is the western extreme of the wide rille named Rima Hesiodus, which runs to the east-northeast. To the west-northwest is the Ramsden crater, and between Capuanus and Ramsden lay a system of intersecting rilles named the Rimae Ramsden.

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By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater mid-point that is closest to Capuanus crater.

Capuanus	Latitude	Longitude	Diameter
A	34.7° S	25.6° W	13 km
B	34.3° S	27.7° W	11 km
C	34.9° S	25.3° W	10 km
D	36.4° S	26.2° W	22 km
E	37.5° S	27.1° W	29 km
F	36.9° S	26.6° W	8 km
H	39.4° S	27.2° W	4 km
K	37.9° S	26.5° W	9 km
L	38.3° S	26.3° W	11 km
M	37.5° S	25.6° W	7 km
P	35.3° S	28.3° W	78 km

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