Puiseux (crater)

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Puiseux is a 24 km impact crater in the southwest quadrant of the Moon front page. Located just south of the plane of Humorum Mare, east of the larger crater Doppelmayer and northwest of Vitello.

The crater is almost completely flooded by lavas of Mare, so that only a remnant of the edge is visible ( see also ghost craters).

The crater was officially named in 1935 by the IAU after the French astronomer Pierre Puiseux, the second author of the Paris Moon Atlas from 1896 to 1910. Named after the lead author, equally large lunar craters Loewy is located on the opposite edge of the Mare Humorum.