Seneca (moon crater)
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| Seneca and Plutarch ( LROC -WAC) | ||
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| position | 26.61 ° N , 79.8 ° O | |
| diameter | 51 km | |
| Card sheet | 45 (PDF) | |
| Named after | Seneca | |
| Named since | 1961 | |
| Unless otherwise stated, the information comes from the entry in the IAU / USGS database | ||
Seneca is an impact crater on the eastern edge of the lunar front , so it appears, if at all, strongly distorted from Earth. It is north of the larger Plutarch crater . The crater is very badly eroded and superimposed several times.
| Letter | position | diameter | link |
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| A. | 26.26 ° N , 75 ° E | 18 km | [1] |
| B. | 27.16 ° N , 77.03 ° O | 27 km | [2] |
| C. | 26.28 ° N , 74.41 ° O | 20 km | [3] |
| D. | 26.67 ° N , 81.22 ° O | 19 km | [4] |
| E. | 29.31 ° N , 79.67 ° O | 17 km | [5] |
| F. | 29.61 ° N , 81.89 ° O | 16 km | [6] |
| G | 29.46 ° N , 83.19 ° O | 21 km | [7] |
The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1961 after the Roman rhetorician and writer Seneca .