Klaproth (crater)

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Klaproth is an impact crater in the extreme south of the lunar front side, just north of the crater Casatus which overlies a portion of the southern crater rim. The oval deformed crater rim is eroded, the interior is largely flat.

The crater was officially named by the IAU in 1935 by the German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth.

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