Heraclitus (crater)

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Heraclitus is an impact crater in the southern lunar front side, east of the crater Maginus and southwest of Licetus. The crater is often superimposed, so that the original crater is hardly discernible. The southwestern part is overlain by Heraclitus D, the rest seems to split in two, possibly with the rest of Central Mountain.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 after the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus.