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Aepinus (crater)
Lunar impact crater From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Aepinus is a small lunar impact crater located along the northern lunar limb, close to the north pole of the Moon. To the south east is the prominent crater Hermite.
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This crater was unnamed until it was given a name along with 18 other craters by the IAU on January 22, 2009. It was named after the German-Russian astronomer Franz Aepinus (c. 1724 – c. 1802).[1]
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