Braude (moon crater)
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| Braude ( Lunar Orbiter 4 ) | ||
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| position | 81.77 ° S , 159.1 ° O | |
| diameter | 11 km | |
| Card sheet | 144 (PDF) | |
| Type | ALC | |
| Named after | Semen Jakowytsch Braude (1911-2003) | |
| Named since | 2009 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Braude is a small, bowl-shaped impact crater on the back of the moon near the South Pole, southeast of Schrödinger crater and northwest of Wiechert .
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 2009 after the Ukrainian physicist and radio astronomer Semen Jakowytsch Braude .