Gruithuisen (crater)

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Gruithuisen is a relative small impact craters in the north- west of the moon in front of the plane between Oceanus Procellarum and Mare Imbrium. North of Gruithuisen the Mons Mons Gruithuisen Gamma and Delta are designated Gruithuisen mountains on a bulge of Oceanus Procellarum.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 by the German astronomer Franz von Paula Gruithuisen.